Hi all The Talbot County held their first outing of the season on 1 -
21 8:15 Am till 12:00 pm before the snow hit . Led by Danny Poet 10
hardy birders members and guests turned out for what turned out to be a
great walk. It started out with a little sunshine before giving away to
snow clouds . Birds were very active, feeding before the bad weather .
First stop was at Stevenson Rd site of Saturdays Lapland Longspurs
none were found here but a large flock of larks could be seen in the
distance so we went to Mason Branch Rd were we got wonderfull veiws of
them locating at least 3 Longspurs most everyone got to see them . They
were life birds for some and year birds and county birds for others
as we found the Longspurs rather quickly we to Tuckahoe State Park lake
area to look for the Moorhen which could not!!! be relocated . Then we
went on the lakeside trail on the Caroline Side of the lake . We ended the
day with 52 species . Latter on the way back to the Park and ride at
Rt 50 and 404 Danny Poet and Norm Saunders located 3 more species
for a total of 55 species not bad for a winter outting . My special thanks
to Terry Allen For leading the Easton Group to the 404 meeting area .
birds seen and heard
Great Blue Heron
Tundra Swans flyovers
Snow Geese no more than 200 flyovers
Canada Geese
Wood Duck 3
Green winged Teal 2
Black Ducks
Mallard
Pintail 1
American Wigeon 1 heard then latter seen
Hooded Merganser 1
Black Vultrue
Turkey Vultrue
Bald Eagle 1
Red Shouldered Hawk 2
Red Tailed Hawk
American Coot 12
Herring Gull
Rock Pigeon
Morning Dove
Red Bellied Woodpecker
Yellow Bellied Sapsucker 3 on the lakeside trail near each other
Downy Woodpecker several
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flickers at least 25 we came across several flocks of them
Horned Lark 200
Blue Jay
American Crow
Carolina Chickadee 2
White Breasted Nuthatch 2
Brown Creeper 2
Carolina Wren
Winter Wren 1
Eastern Bluebird several
Hermit Thrush 1 great looks
American Robin several
Mockingbird
Starling many
Yellow Rumped warbler 12
Cardinal including one extracting seed from a cone on a lobloly
pine tree to eat
Chipping Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow
White Throated Sparrows 100 would not be an under estimated guess
White Crowned Sparrow several
Dark Eyed Junco 100 estimated
LAPLAND LONGSPUR 3
Red Winged Blackbird
RUSTY BLACKBIRD 2
Grackle
American Goldfinch
House Soarrow
Latter additions on the way back to the meeting place Danny and Norm
Northern Harrier 1 QA county
American Kestrel 1 QA county
Field Sparrow 1 lake area tukahoe after one more try for
Moorhen NO LUCK
Happy Birding
Danny Poet
Queenstown , Md
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