Hey everyone-

At the beginning of 2009, I set a goal for myself to get my lifelist in MD up to 300 species by the end of the year.  Right now, I am at 269 species seen in MD, so I need 31 more over the next 11 months in order to reach my goal.  I have created a list of possible MD lifers that occur once or twice a year at the least, and was wondering if, throughout they year, any of you could give me recommendations of the best places to go to check off a certain species.  Here's the list:

1)Great Cormorant
2)White Ibis
3)Greater White-Fronted Goose
4)Ross's Goose
5)Trumpeter Swan
6)Golden Eagle
7)Ring-Necked Pheasant
8)King Rail
9)Sora
10)Black Rail
11)Black-Necked Stilt
12)Solitary Sandpiper
13)Marbled Godwit
14)Red Knot
15)American Woodcock
16)Long-Billed Dowitcher
17)Little Gull
18)Thayer's Gull
19)Glaucous Gull
20)Black Tern
21)Barn Owl
22)Long-Eared Owl
23)Chuck-Will's-Widow
24)Whip-poor-will
25)Olive-Sided Flycatcher
26)Yellow-Bellied Flycatcher
27)Western Kingbird
28)Philadelphia Vireo
29)Cave Swallow
30)Sedge Wren
31)Gray-Cheeked Thrush
32)Bay-Breasted Warbler
33)Blue-Winged Warbler
34)Golden-Winged Warbler
35)Tennessee Warbler
36)Northern Waterthrush
37)Connecticut Warbler
38)Mourning Warbler
39)Wilson's Warbler
40)Dickcissel
41)Clay-Colored Sparrow
42)Saltmarsh Sharp-Tailed Sparrow
43)Nelson's Sharp-Tailed Sparrow
44)Lark Sparrow
45)Lapland Longspur
46)Brewer's Blackbird
47)Red Crossbill
48)Northern Goshawk

As you can see, some of these birds should be easy pick-ups, while others will mostly depend on luck.  I figure since I need 31 of the 48 I came up with, this goal will definitely be possible to attain.

Thanks,

Nico Sarbanes
Baltimore
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicobirdphotos