Hi Everybody:

      After spending the previous night in Salisbury I was out the door before 5 AM and heading south on Nanticoke Road. I made a quick stop on Brott-Matt Road and heard 2 Chuck-will-widows calling. I realized that I forgot to get gas the evening before so I headed back to Salisbury to refuel. I then decide to head for Somerset County (the only county that I had not birded in so far this year). I decided to take back roads to get there and selected some roads that I had never been on before. The abridged list of species below are in SOMERSET COUNTY unless otherwise noted:
     
     EDEN ALLEN ROAD (everything seen or heard was in an overgrown field where huge power lines had been erected) 
  
        Common Yellowthroat    3
        N. Bobwhite     1   (calling)
        Brown-headed Cowbird    2
        Yellow-breasted Chat    1     ( A County Bird & Closeout # 81)
        Blue Grosbeak    2

     SEA TICK ROAD (accessed off of Meadow Bridge Road)
     
        Blue-gray Gnatcatcher     1
        Downy woodpecker    1
        Pileated woodpecker      1
        Ovenbird    1
        Black & white Warbler    2
        Common Yellowthroat    2
        Worm-eating Warbler    1    heard first and spished in within 5 feet from me     (a County Bird)
        Yellow-breasted Chat    2   (once a species is closed out you find them everywhere)
        Summer Tanager    1
        blue Grosbeak    1

     FLEMMING MILL POND ROAD BRIDGE CROSSING  (the bridge separates Somerset & Worcester Counties)                       all listed were in Somerset County unless otherwise noted

        Yellow-billed Cuckoo    1
        Hairy Woodpecker    1
        Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  3    (both)
        White-eyed Vireo   1
        E. Wood Pewee     2     (Wor. only)
        Prothonotary Warbler   2   (both)
        Kentucky Warbler    1      (singing, chipping and briefly seen as it flew across the road)   (a County Bird)
        Louisiana Waterthrush    1        (both )                 (a County bird in Somerset)
        Scarlet Tanager    2     (both)
     FIVE BRIDGES ROAD CROSSING (this bridge also separates Somerset & Worcester Counties)

        Red-bellied Woodpecker    1    (both)
        Pileated woodpecker    1
        White-breasted Nuthatch    1
        Yellow-throated Vireo     1     (Wor. only - a County Bird)  
        Prothonotary Warbler  2    (both)
       
     PERRYMAN CHURCH ROAD

        N. Bobwhite    1
        Ovenbird    1
        Prothonotary Warbler    1

     DUBLIN ROAD
        Cattle Egret    3    (a County Bird)

     2 Eurasian Collared Doves were seen in their usual location off of Dividing Creek road at the intersection of Pocomoke river and Somerset roads      ( a County Bird)

     RUMBLY POINT ROAD (from the beginning of the road to the end at midday)

        Bald Eagle     1
        Brown-headed Nuthatch   1
        Pine Warbler   2
        Prairie Warbler    1
        Common Yellowthroat    3
        Yellow-breastewd Chat    1
        Great Egret    12
        Snowy Egret    8
        Tri-colored  Heron    1
        Glossy Ibis    1
        Forster's Tern    2
        Marsh Wren    3
        Seaside Sparrow    4
        Boat-tailed Grackle    3

     MARUMSCO ROAD    

        E. Kingbird    1
        Yellow-breasted Chat    1

     COVENTRY PARISH ROAD
     
        Barn Swallow    4
        Purple Martin    5
        Common Yellowthroat

     WHITEHAVEN ROAD    (waiting for Ferry into Wicomico County)
        Osprey    1
        Laughing Gull    4
        Clapper Rail    (calling from marsh)
        Indigo Bunting    1
        Blue Grosbeak    1  (it was such a treat to see & hear these birds seemingly everywhere)

WICOMICO COUNTY (unless otherwise noted):

     MEZICK ROAD
        Wild Turkey    1
        E. Kingbird    1

     MUDDY HOLE ROAD
        Brown-headed Nuthatch   4
        Pine Warbler    1

     HICKMAN ROAD
        Cattle Egret   1   (barely seen amidst some cattle)     (a County Bird)

WORCESTER COUNTY

     BERLIN SEWAGE PONDS\
        Killdeer    1 near a nest with 4 eggs in it)
        Brown Thrasher    1
        Green Heron    6
        Least Terns     7

ASSATEAGUE  (I arrived here about 1 hour before dusk - I drove the main road in, parked near the pay booth, scanned the beach and then hung near my car until just after dusk)

        Brown Pelican    4
        Great Egret    2
        Willet     5  all those seen were on the beach. Many heard calling from Bayside as I drove south on the entrance road).
        Brown Thrasher    3
        Common Nighthawk    1   (a County Bird)
        Chuck-wills-widow - first heard calling on Bayside in daylight and heard another 6 -8 on the drive out of the park.

On the way back to Rumbly Point where I was staying overnight I drove south on Meadow Bridges Road;  parts of this road is a boundary line with Worcester Co. on my left and Somerset Co. on my right.  I heard numerous Chucks in Worcester County (12-14). I finally heard two Chucks calling from Somerset County(Which was a Somerset County bird for me).   20 minutes later a Barred Owl gave its single note call. ( needed this for a County Bird).
     
Jim Green
Gaithersburg, MD

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