Paul Noell and I went up to see the Northern Shrike on Shriver Road 
today. We were not seeing it in the original hedgerow area across from 
the old house with the blue tarp. Duvall Sollers had been there all 
morning and had seen it fleetingly by the woods about 1/4 mile to the 
north. He returned to the woods area, and saw the bird fly to the top of 
some bare snags sticking out above the tallest pines on the west side of 
the road. He summoned us up there and we got decent, though distant, 
looks through Duvall's scope. The bird then worked its way south, 
perching in several locations at the tops of bare branches. Duvall also 
said that the shrike had been seen earlier in the lone small tree on the 
east side of the road from the woods. Other birds in the area were 
Horned Larks and at least one Pipit flying overhead, lots of Bluebirds, 
and multiple White-crowned Sparrows singing. Somehow, neither Paul nor I 
managed to take our scopes, so Duvall was our lifesaver. Thank you!  So, 
DO TAKE A SCOPE if you go looking for the shrike!

We also spoke to Bob Moul from Pennsylvania. He said that the 
Short-eared Owls are not back at the Arendt farm south of Gettysburg 
yet. He will post on PA Birds if he sees them.

Later we went a few miles south to the area that traditionally has a lot 
of White-crowned Sparrows near the south end of Sixes Road (where a red 
barn is close to the road on the east side with a major stream to the 
south. There were fewer White-crows than sometimes but enough to satisfy 
us. Also there were two Fox Sparrows there.

Steve Sanford
Randallstown MD
scartan ^at^ verizon ^dot^ net