On Sunday 1 - 15- 11   a hardy bunch of Talbot County Bird Club Members  set off on the first outting of 2011 led by Danny Poet  .  We went to the farm fields  near Ridgely Maryland on a search for Lapland Longspurs and other field birds  . No LONGSPURS could be located however . But did locate 36 species.All birds in Caroline County unless I say otherwise.  Birds  seen or heard were  below .


Greater White Fronted Goose      2      Rt 309  Queen Annes County after a phone call from Bill Hubick 
Snow Goose
Canada Goose
Tundra Swan
Wood Duck  5  lake at Tuckahoe State Park 
Black Duck    "
Mallard  "
Bufflehead      Lake at Tuckahoe
Hooded Merganser    5     as above
Great Blue Heron    2
Black Vultrue 
Turkey Vultrue 
Bald Eagle    2 adults  Sparks road  Ridgely 
Red Tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
Coot         2       Tuckahoe
Herring Gull  1    flyover
Rock Pigeon   
Mourning Dove
Yellow bellied Sapsucker    1 seen by one car only 
Downy Woodpecker    1
Flicker     2
Blue Jay
American Crow
Horned Lark      50 +   sparks road
Carolina Chickadee    1 marblehead road 
Carolina Wren
Eastern Bluebird     1 male  at Tuckahoe 
Robin
Mockingbird
Starling 
American Pipit      20   Mason Branch rd Ridgely 
Yellow Rumped Warbler
Swamp Sparrow    1  seen by only a few of the group
White throated Sparrow    many 
Junco    many
Cardinal
Red -  winged Blackbird
Goldfinch

Afterward  three  of us went to Kent Island at the  Hemingways location   near  the base of the Bay Bridge to look for the Iceland Gull. It provided very  nice and even close views  at times .



Happy Birding
Danny Poet 
Queenstown, Maryland