Hello!  I am wishing I could have seen the Th-billed murre in OC, that is very 
exciting.  Given today's nicely inclement weather, today is a ho-hummer bird-
wise around here.  Normally foul weather brings out the fowl!  And I feel 
pretty darn lazy/sore, but I need a day off after a marathon of yard work the 
last week.  Over 3 days/26 hours, I gathered 16 truckloads of woody debris 
from damaged trees in our yard that were torn up by the ice storm here on 
February 14-15.  One more full day of debris clean-up should do it, but today's 
weather will force that to next weekend.  So now, I'm lazily watching birds at 
the feeders and out back.  We have about 3 inches of snow so far and it is 
still flurrying lightly.  Surprisingly, there are very few birds visible on the river 
now (Jug Bay area, PG Co. side).

On the river:

G. Blue Heron 1
Canada Goose 5
Mallard 2
Am. Black Duck 2
Ring-billed Gull 1
Herring Gull 2
Am Crow 3

In the yard:
Wilson's Snipe 1 (hunkered by a seep; snow covered - very picturesque!)
(there are others species, but nothing different than list from feeders below).

At the feeders:
Mourning Dove 7
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2
Downy Woodpecker 3
Pileated Woodpecker 1
Blue Jay 4
Carolina Chickadee 2
Tufted Titmouse 2
White-breasted Nuthatch 2
Carolina Wren 2
Northern Mockingbird 1
Brown Thrasher 1 (eating at the feeder!)
European Starling 5
Am. Tree Sparrow 1 (2nd property record; at feeder daily since ice storm)
Fox Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 4
Swamp Sparrow 1
White-throated Sparrow 37
Dark-eyed (Slate-colored) Junco 18
Northern Cardinal 7
Red-winged Blackbird 42
Common Grackle 5
Brown-headed Cowbird 17
House Finch 7
American Goldfinch 1
House Sparrow 2

33 species as of 1 PM

It has been an exciting winter bird-wise for me here, and I am pretty excited 
about the next 5-10 days as we change into Spring.  Winter will let go here 
soon; our first Woodcock flights should start any day and the first Osprey 
normally arrive here within the next 10 days!

Cheers!
Jeff Shenot
Croom MD