Thanks for the posting.  I also saw the Northern Shrike around 5PM Friday 
opposite the
farmhouse with the blue tarp sitting in a small tree in the fenceline 
closest to the road and
for a few minutes on a telephone wire!

Sarel Cousins
New Windsor, MD


>From: Jim Wilkinson <>
>Reply-To: Jim Wilkinson <>
>To: 
>Subject: [MDOSPREY] Northern Shrike in Frederick County near Emmitsburg
>Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 16:51:43 -0500
>
>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

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