Today (Nov 10) around noon I saw an immature Northern Shrike along Shriver 
Road about 8/10 of a mile north of Bollinger School Road.  Coming from 
Emmitsburg on Route 140 east turn left on Bollinger School Road and Shriver 
Road is about a mile on the left.  The bird was perched in the top of a small 
tree along a fenceline about 100 feet east of the road.  There is a farmhouse 
with blue plastic covering part of the front porch on the west side of Shriver 
opposite where the bird was.  In a scope view, the shrike was brownish with 
barring/scaling on the underparts and a heavy hooked bill which was paler at 
the base.  A short time after this it flew down into a cornfield and I didn't see 
it again. A scope is essential if the bird stays around the fenceline.

Other birds of note today in Carroll County were a male Northern Harrier near 
Keysville, 2 Greater Yellowlegs in a rain pool near Middleburg, and an adult Red-
headed Woodpecker along Ruggles Road north of Taneytown.

Jim Wilkinson
Columbia, MD