HI all -- 

Barry, Diane Ford and I did some of Frederick Co. yesterday as part of the county Midwinter Count. In general, it was even LESS active than for the Jan. 2 CBC. However some nice birds were seen, those of note included: 

Virginia Rail - probably the continuing bird at Lilypons, but in a different impoundment than on the 2nd. 
Common Raven - 3 noisily interacting at Nolan's Ferry 
American Tree Sparrow - 2 at Lilypons 
White-crowned Sparrow - 26 at Bishop Claggett Center 
Lapland Longspur - 2 with Horned Larks on gravel road leading into Claude Moore turf farm off New Design Rd.-- dustbathing!; also about 250 larks on manured field on east side of New Design Rd, south of intersection with Greenfield. Scanned for some time but no lappies seen, however could easily have been missed. 

Mike Welsh also found a blue phase Snow Goose - unusual in county; with Canadas at pond south of Rt. 28 between Rt. 85 and Park Mills Rd. -- I saw it later in the afternoon in same spot. 

Raptors seemed low -- doing a lot of riding around the roads for 5 hours I saw only 1 Red-tail, 1 Red-shoulder, 1 Sharpie and 1 Kestrel. 

Gail Mackiernan and Barry Cooper 
Colesville, MD 

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