Greetings to all.  I worked at home today due to winter storm and was thankful for the beautiful weather; and also thankful it was harsh on only some of our vegetation (which took a major beating at the last couple of winter storms).  It should only take about an hour this weekend to clean up the debris!  The birds were hectic as expected, with our highest finch count ever (100+) at our feeders here.  I had to refill at 3:00 pm, and estimate the birds ate 6.5 pounds of thistle today (all species).  No estimate for sunflower and suet, but they emptied two sunflower feeders by 1 pm and I had to refill.  The other hopper feeders I stopped keeping track of since the blackbirds etc raid them and can empty them in no time at all.  Birds seen at home were all observed from inside house (the only time I got out was to shovel some snow and I was not birdwatching then)!  List below includes numbers for most individuals seen at one time for each species.  Waterfowl, gulls and shorebirds were at Patuxent River at Jug Bay.

45 species

Canada Goose  16
American Black Duck  34
Mallard 34
Northern Pintail 4
Green-winged Teal  11
Great Blue Heron  2
Turkey Vulture  2
Bald Eagle  1
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Killdeer  11
Wilson's Snipe 2
Ring-billed Gull  72
Herring Gull 33
Mourning Dove  4
Belted Kingfisher  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  2
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  1
Downy Woodpecker  2
Northern Flicker  1
Blue Jay  4
American Crow  8
Carolina Chickadee  2
Tufted Titmouse  1
White-breasted Nuthatch  2
Brown Creeper   1
Carolina Wren  2
Eastern Bluebird  2
American Robin  13
Northern Mockingbird  1
Brown Thrasher  1
European Starling  11
Cedar Waxwing 16
Fox Sparrow   1
Song Sparrow   7
White-throated Sparrow   38
Dark-eyed (Slate-colored) Junco  36
Northern Cardinal   11
Red-winged Blackbird 235
Rusty Blackbird   1
Common Grackle  14
Purple Finch  1
House Finch  12
Pine Siskin 8
American Goldfinch   85
House Sparrow  2

Cheers!
Jeff Shenot
Croom MD