Hi all with yesterday mornings snowfall in the afternoon after the road ways had cleared up I decided to head up to the northern part Of Queen Annes County to the place near Chestertown but on the QA side of the Chester River off of Rt 544 were recent Larks ,Longspur and Snow Bunting sightings were . Arriving in the area around 3:00 pm I first tried Kibler road not much of interest on the first pass just
Northern Flicker 2
On to Leverage road just across Rt 544 from Kibler there were several small flocks of Horned Larks nothing else of interest.
Back on to Rt 544 I headed east to Double Creek road and at the Corner of Double Creek and Rt 544 there was a large flock of Snow Geese landing in a field in a low spot in the back part of it out of site . The last half of Double Creek Road beyond the very sharp bend in the road yielded the following birds .
Horned Lark 15
Meadowlark 20
American Pipit 10
Savannah Sparrow 1
After here it was back to Kibler road for another try no Northern Shrike could be found however there were the following birds below .
Northern Harrier 1
Horned Lark 3
Nothern Mockingbird 1 Eating Berries from a Mutiflora Rose
Yellow Rumped Warbler 1 Eating berries from a Red Cedar tree at the intersection with Roundtop Road
Dark eyed Junco 8
Savannah Sparrow 10
Back to Leverage road again this time with better results near the road at the edge of fields before the bend in the road and on the road was a flock of Horned larks and one Longspur that I was able to get some ok photos of . But no Snow Buntings as light was fast leaving the sky I headed home numbers below for this stop
Northern Harrier 1 May have been the same bird as above
Horned Lark 50
Lapland Longspur 1
Happy Birding
Danny Poet
Queestown, Maryland
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