Hi all after being snowed in and cleaning walks and decks etc most of the week I Had to get out for a while on Sun Feb 14 to look around and try to find Longspurs in Queen Annes County after several other tries this winter with no luck . I had different luck on the 14th and located one then three more near Ruthsburg Maryland in Queen Annes County . Then to Caroline County Sparks Rd near Ridgely Maryland no Longspurs there however . Sparks road on the 14th not passable so I backed out and went back to Queen Annes County to work on Waterfowl . Locations and bird lists below . List are also being submitted as part of the backyard bird Count
Damsontown Rd near Ruthsburg Maryland Q.A. County
Horned Lark 50 total small flocks up and down the roadside feeding
LAPLAND LONGSPUR 4
Junco 10
Meadowlark 6
A.Crow 2
Sparks Road Ridgely Maryland Caroline County
Very Snow Covered drifted not passable
Bald Eagle 3 adult
TV 1
Snow Geese 3,000
A. Crows 6
Northern Harrier 1
Horned Lark 2
Cardinal 6
White Throated Sparrow 12
Mo Do 20
Savannah Sparrow 6 Doves and S. Sparrows were feeding on weed seed that was
on and in a parked combine in a field there
Canada Geese 9
Dean Rd Ridgely Maryland Caroline County
This road was snow covered but passable
Horned Lark 12
White Crowned Sparrow 4 three immatures one adult
Song Sparrow 2
Mockingbird 1
Kent Narrows Grasonville /Kent Island Queen Annes County
visted several sites there parking somewhat limited
Canada Geese 14
Ruddy Duck 21
Lesser Scaup 45
Canvasback 6
Golden Eye 21
Bufflehead 11
Mallard 9
Hooded Merganser 3 one drake two female
Greater Scaup 5
Coot 2
D.C. Cormorant 1 immature
Great Black backed Gull 12
Herring Gull 5
Ring Billed Gull 3
Bald Eagle 2 total one adult one immature
Great Blue Heron 2
Mockingbird 2
Starling 12
Little Creek boat landing kent Island Q.A. County
parking here very scarce
Canvasback 73
Ruddy Duck 9
Lesser Scaup 5
Scaup species 300 bad lighing and distance
Herring Gull 2
Ring Billed Gull 6
Canada Geese 22
Tundra Swan 11
Black Vuture 2
Ingleside Queen Annes County Maryland
American Robin 100
Great Blue Heron 1
Feeder highlights this weekend My Queenstown Home also Q.A. County
2-12-2010
Brown Thrasher 1
White throated Sparrow 47
Junco 15
Song Sparrow 4
Cardinal 16
Coopers Hawk 1
2-15-2010
Cardinal 25
Eastern Towhee 1 male
Junco 18
White Throated Sparrow 73
Brown Thrasher 1
Happy Birding
Danny poet
Queenstown, Maryland
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