Results of a two-day foray to the Lower Eastern Shore:

On Dec. 20:

Cambridge at Oakley Ave.:
Baldpate  3
Redhead  1
Canvasback  50
Surf Scoter  200

Blackwater NWR:
Snow Goose  0
Canada Goose  thousands
Tundra Swan  many
White Pelican  13
Bald Eagle  12
Cooper's Hawk  1
Peregrine  2
Killdeer  40

Hooper's Island:
Collared Dove  2 - a courting pair on the cross beam of a utility pole opposite 2546 Hooper Island Road. The birds then flew into trees at that address and one started singing. One Clapper Rail heard here.

Whitehaven Ferry:
DC Cormorant  4

Flycatcher Site in Somerset Co. - bird not seen

Deal Island WMA:
Mute Swan  4
Tundra Swan  7
Black Duck  2
Hooded Merganser  100
Pied-billed Grebe  2
Great Blue Heron  5
Great Egret  8
Tricolored Heron  5
Black-crowned Night-Heron  116
Harrier  6
Clapper Rail  7 heard
Unidentified yellowlegs  3
Short-eared Owl  1
Marsh Wren  1 heard
Boat-tailed Grackle  150

On Dec. 21:

Ocean City:
Brant  hundreds
Surf Scoter  many flying south
White-winged Scoter  2 flying south
Long-tailed Duck  3 at the inlet
Red-breasted Merganser  15
Common Loon  3
Red-throated Loon  many flying south
Gannet  100 off the inlet
Brown Pelican  3 in the ocean off the inlet, one adult and two ims
DC Cormorant  6
Great Cormorant  1 perched at the high rocks on the south jetty
Peregrine  1 on the water tower
Oystercatcher  5 on the back side of the flats
Turnstone  15 at the jetty
Purple Sandpiper  60 at the jetty
Bonaparte's Gull  500 feeding off the inlet
Forster's Tern  30 at the inlet

West Ocean City Pond:
Tundra Swan
Gadwall
Shoveler
Pintail
Canvasback
Lesser Scaup
Hooded Merganser
Ruddy Duck

Eagles Landing Golf Course:
Gadwall
Baldpate  160 (the golf course horticulturist told me he saw the Eurasian Wigeon yesterday)
Shoveler
Hooded Merganser  4
Pied-billed Grebe  1
Phoebe  1
Tree Swallow  4

Eagles Nest Campground:
Brant  hundreds
Bufflehead  many
Red-breasted Merganser  12
Bald Eagle  1
Black-bellied Plover  5
Oystercatcher  11
Knot  1
Sanderling  15
Dunlin  400

Assateague Island Bay side:
Brant  many
Bufflehead  many
Red-breasted Merganser  a few
Common Loon  1

Assateague Ocean side:
Surf Scoter  50
Black Scoter  2
Red-throated Loon  20
Horned Grebe  2
Gannet 300, many on the water
Sharp-shinned Hawk  1 missed hitting a warbler
Myrtle Warbler  abundant.
--
Bob Ringler
Eldersburg MD