Ron, 
	I will have to put in a plug for some Caroline Co. spots.   
 
1.  Idlywild WMA, esp. from the Noble Rd entrance, has extensive trails along old borrow pit ponds and Marshyhope Creek.  Fields and edge habitat then going into the bottomland forest along the creek.  Very nice in the summer.  Also from Houston Branch Rd entrances near White Rd and Turner Rd. 
 
2.  Line Rd (parallels 404 to the south, heading west from just north of Smithville Pond).  A mix of fields, forest and cutoff habitats plus a couple of small ponds.  Should have field puddles bringing in shorebirds in the coming weeks. 
 
3.  County Farm Rd northeast of Denton.  Another one stop shopping road with a mix of farm fields, forest and cutoffs.  Excellent both on the CBC and atlas.  Not too far away, on Garland Rd north of Camp Rd, there is another productive puddle. 
 
Good Birding, 
Glen Lovelace III 
Seaford, DE 
 
 
 
-----Original Message----- 
From: Maryland Birds & Birding [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On 
Behalf Of Ronald Gutberlet 
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 4:37 PM 
To:  
Subject: [MDOSPREY] RFI: Favorite Birding Spot in Your County 
 
 
Hi Everyone, 
 
My wife Carol and I have recently moved back to Maryland after living 
in Texas for the past 16 years.  Since returning, we have joined the 
Tri-County Bird Club and MOS, and I signed onto MDOSPREY a little over a 
month ago.  We’ve really appreciated the great information and the 
friendly birders we’ve met so far.  It feels good to be home! 
 
We’ve come up with a little game to try to get up to speed on 
Maryland birding and to put a little play into our spring break.  (Carol 
unfortunately will miss the first part owing to her school schedule, but 
will join in for the rest).  Between 15 and 23 March, we’re going to 
attempt to bird in every MD county.  And for kicks, we’ve set 
ourselves the challenge of 1000 total ticks for these nine days of 
birding.  We have birded in fewer than half of MD’s counties so far, 
but I hope that this big week will produce a few of those “county 
close-outs” that we’ve been hearing about. 
 
So we’re writing for a little help.  If you have a favorite birding 
spot in your home county, we’d love to hear about it.  If you’d like 
to reply off-list, we’ll be happy to post a summary of the responses.  
We have Claudia Wilds’ book Finding Birds in the National Capital 
Area, The Baltimore Bird Club’s A Birder’s Guide to Baltimore and 
Baltimore County, Maryland, and a Maryland/Delaware DeLorme Atlas. 
 
We will keep the list updated about our progress during the week—the 
Home Again Tour we’re calling it—and will be sure to post any 
sightings that may be of general interest.  We will also be submitting 
all of our observations to eBird. 
 
Thanks for any help you can offer!  Have fun, 
 
Ron Gutberlet 
Salisbury, MD