While running pre-snowstorm errands today, I saw an American Kestrel perched
on the power lines along Route 273 near Blue Ball Road, and two Black
Vultures flying over Calvert. I saw three more Black Vultures on the Tome
Highway just south of 273. On Wilson Road I saw an immature Bald Eagle in a
thermal with a Turkey Vulture (the eagle had lots of white on the underside
but only a narrow dark band on the tail-is that a 3rd year bird?). 

 

I was hoping to see flocks of blackbirds, or maybe some LBJs that might turn
into something good, like White-crowned Sparrows, but there were very few
birds at all. Not even a flock of Canada Geese. I did see some Ring-billed
Gulls heading inland, which usually means bad weather coming.

 

Here at the feeder, two Carolina Wrens are stuffing themselves. A few years
ago we wouldn't have had any wrens during a cold and snowy winter.

 

Pat Valdata

Elkton, MD