Hi everybody,

Nancy and I did a bit of scouting for tomorrow's trip around Kent County 
today. We took in the John Hanson Rd. ponds, Cliffs City Landing (on 
Quaker Neck), Chesapeake Farms, and Great Oak Pond. John Hanson Rd 
featured 220 Northern Shovelers, and about 70 Ruddy Ducks. The Chester 
at Cliffs City was mostly empty save for a Common Loon. We stopped to 
look at two high-flying Black Vultures in a thermal north of Pomona and 
south of Airy Hill Rd on Pomona Rd and were lucky enough to also spot a 
soaring PEREGRINE FALCON with them. The Chesapeake Farms viewing pool 
had a nice selection of birds including 150 Northern Pintail, 30 
Ring-necked Ducks, a male Northern Harrier, and 10 White-crowned 
Sparrows. The Snow Geese were not on Great Oak Pond, but they were in 
the fields just to the east, off Handy Pt. Rd. We had a lone CACKLING 
GOOSE among them. At Great Oak Pond there was a single juvenile BRANT 
(thus different from the adult I had on 27 October). I hope the salt we 
put on the tails of some of these birds keeps them in place for tomorrow.

Good birding,

Walter Ellison & Nancy Martin

23460 Clarissa Rd
Chestertown, MD 21620
410-778-9568

rossgull (at) baybroadband (dot) net

Observing Nature is like unwrapping a big pile of presents every time 
you take a walk.