Hi All,
Birded the with Jim Stasz, Mike Burchett, and Betsy Bangert from sun up to to sunset. We spent the day driving back roads to Ocean City and back. We also maintained contact with Jim Brighton who was riding with Bill Hubick, Ed Carlson, and John Hubbel. We took different routes and only crossed paths briefly on one occasion. Goal was to find field birds exposed by the snow.
On Coveys Landing Road, in Talbot County, we encountered our largest Horned Lark flock of the day. The flock numbered 400+ birds, and mixed in were 12 LAPLAND LONGSPUR. 
At the intersection of Wheatly and Oak Grove Roads in Dorchester we turned up an AMERICAN TREE SPARROW, not at all an easy bird in the county. Unfortunately shortly after spotting the bird it was the only one that left the hedge and flew, it did not appear to any intentions  of ever returning to that hedge for the rest of its life.
In Sharptown, Wicomico County, we turned up 2 AMERICAN PIPIT feeding in the road with Horned Larks and Savanna Sparrows. 
Ocean City Inlet held the usual winter suspects, 40+ Common Eider, 2 HARLEQUIN DUCK, 1 female COMMON GOLDENEYE(unusual for location), 5 Bonaparte's Gull, and an active group of American Oystercatchers. From here we headed to The Shark Restaurant in the West Ocean City Marina on Sunset Avenue, they have fantastic food, $5 lunch specials, and a view towards the inlet and north Assateague Island. While eating lunch, we had 1 GREAT CORMORANT fly into the marina and land near the restaurant. At Shantytown, Stasz turned up a Greater Yellowlegs.
On the way back we followed up on a lead from the other car earlier in the morning. They had reported a large flock of Horned Lark near Rhodesdale in Dorchester. In the Cloverdale Road area we found about 300 Horned Lark scattered about, mixed in were a MERLIN, 6 American Pipit, 9 Eastern Meadowlark, 40 Savanna Sparrow, and at least 1 LAPLAND LONGSPUR.
Good birding!
Hans Holbrook
Crofton, MD