Bob,
			I've had some problems with my server, but can "reply"
		so I'm offering an addendum from a similar trip a few days ago:
	
			I stopped in the St. Pk. Campground to look for brown-
		headed nuthatches.   I found a few at Campsite #27 where,
		within 10 minutes, I also found 5 woodpeckers: sapsucker,
		pileated, red-bellied, downy, and hairy.

			Worth checking out.

		Leo

On Jan 9, 2012, at 7:43 AM, Bob Ringler wrote:

>    Yesterday Keith Costley and I birded St. Mary's County. We  
> started at
> the Elms and after diligent searching we saw the male *Barrow's  
> Goldeneye*.
> It was slightly north of the observation point and within a quarter  
> mile.
> It was with many Common Goldeneyes, Buffleheads, Long-tailed Ducks,  
> and
> Horned Grebes. We also saw both Red-throated and Common Loons and four
> Forster's Terns. In the woods and thickets along the trail we saw a
> Sapsucker, Hermit Thrushes, and Fox Sparrows.
>    At Point Lookout there were hundreds of Surf Scoters and one Black
> Scoter, many Buffleheads, both Red-throated and Common Loons again,  
> some
> Long-tailed Ducks and Horned Grebes, and only one Common Goldeneye.  
> There
> was a small flock of sandpipers on the sand bar off the point but  
> looking
> directly into the bright sun they were impossible to identify.
>    On Long Neck Road we found a small flock of Meadowlarks. Cornfield
> Harbor Road had nothing notable. At Piney Point we saw about 17 Common
> Loons and one Red-throated with small numbers of waterfowl.
>    We ended the day at the Beauvue Ponds which held 4 Canada Geese,  
> 1 *Mute
> Swan*, 15, Tundra Swans, 20 Gadwall, 1 Baldpate, 11 *Shovelers*, 70
> Ring-necked Ducks, 2 Ruddy Ducks, 8 Pied-billed Grebes, and 10  
> Coots. Keith
> saw a Woodcock at sunset. From Abells Wharf we saw 3 Double-crested
> Cormorants in Breton Bay.
>
> -- 
> Bob Ringler
> Eldersburg MD
>
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