I took the opportunity to look for the Shrike at the Pettigrew CT and Sedgewick Rd intersection near the Hagerstown Mall off of US 40 - sorry the exact names of the roads are my best guess but are available in the ARCHIVES.  No luck at any of the recent sighting locations.  I didn't stay long and the weather was abominable.
 
At the Boonsboro WWTP, i believe i found a pair of Ruddy Ducks among the mallards and C Geese.  On leaving and appraoching MD 34 in a field opposite the ball field was a flock of 7 Wild Turkeys, Meleagris gallopavo.  BTW this is the bird that Ben Franklin would have enshrined as the symbol of America and it seems to me that it is about time to give it a little more respect in terms of it's nondescript name...what about American, or Woodland Turkey?  According to Wikipedia:  The [only] other living species is Meleagris ocellata, AKA the Ocellated Turkey, native to the forests of the Yucatan Peninsula.  AOU get with the program, please!
 
Jim (Michael) Speicher
Broad Run area of S FRED CO

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