Hi  All on Sunday 1 -  10 - 10  the Talbot  County  Bird Club  held their first outing  for 2010 . Five  hardy Birders set out  lead by Danny Poet   Our goal was to scour the Fields of Caroline County  near Ridgely  Maryland  For Horned Larks , Pipits Lapland  Longspurs  and  Snow Bunting . With the  recent Snow Cover  we set out with high Hopes .  Our hopes were dashed field after field road after  road as  the flocks of  Horned Larks  were  scattered in small flocks of 1 to 2  with one flock of 15  birds .  The  other field birds  were not to be found . To quote Les Roslund " we will Take What Nature gives  " and it did provide see list below  At about 9:30 Am We decieded to leave there head north  to northern Queen Annes County  to have a go at the  Northern Shrike hanging out there  We did have  some  decent looks at the Shrike .    We ended  the day with 31 Species .
several bird Club members mentioned seeing  Longspurs in a flock of Horned Larks  near Coveys Landing road and Lewistown road  on 1 - 09 - 10  so  when the  group broke off  I went there and was  soon joined By  Dave Palmer . where we did   locate a large Horned Lark flock   and Dave  saw a Lapland Longspur  and  I located  a second   we 
                          located a total of three . Fun was had by all .

Snow Geese       many   Flyovers     Talbot County Queen Annes County  line at rt 404 
                       and Caroline County  
Canada Geese 
Tundra Swan      10   field   Mason Branch Road Caroline county   2 Snow Geese with them
Common Merganser    6 three female three male  Coveys  landing  Talbot County  Danny  
                               And Dave 
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Bald Eagle        2 adults  Northern Queen Annes county 
Red Shouldered Hawk     1         Rt 213 north of Church Hill 
Red Tailed Hawk   12   Queen Annes and Caroline Counties 
Kestrel      2
PEREGRINE FALCON   1    Mason Branch Road  near Ridgely  In Caroline County
                               sitting on an Irrgation rig 
Ring Billed  Gull     1     Q.A. County
Rock Pigeon    5      Marblehead Rd  Caroline County 
Red bellied Woodpecker 
Flicker
Eastern Phoebe    1  John Powell Rd Q.A. County 
NORTHERN SHRIKE   1       Kibler road and Round Top road Queen Annes County 
Blue Jay
American Crow 
Horned Lark            in three counties 
Eastern Bluebirds  6  Q. A. County 
Hermit Thrush   1 Caroline County 
Robin 
Mockingbird
Starling 
Song Sparrow 
White Throated Sparrow 
Junco
LAPLAND LONGSPUR     3 Coveys Landing road and Lewistown Rd Talbot County
                                A county bird and year bird for me 
Cardinal
House Sparrow 

 

Happy Birding 
Danny Poet 
Queenstown, Maryland 










 		 	   		  
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