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Mid-January in Maryland. Last updated: 1/17/2011.
Above and below: A White-winged Dove in Frederick Co., Maryland (1/2011). This is about the 10th record of this species ever in Maryland. Thanks to Esther Smith and her community for their hospitality to the bird and to Maryland's birding community.
Below: An Orange-crowned Warbler in Wicomico Co., Maryland (1/16/2011).
Below: A gray morph Eastern Screech-Owl hunts beside a Wicomico Co., Maryland road (1/16/2011).
Below: A first-cycle presumed Nelson's Gull (Glaucous x Herring hybrid) in Cecil Co., Maryland (1/9/2011). Some plumage details recall Thayer's Gull, but structural clues and bill pattern point to Nelson's Gull.
Below: A second-cycle Ring-billed Gull at Fells Point, Baltimore, Maryland (12/29/2010).
Distant documentation: Two Greater White-fronted Geese in Queen Anne's Co., Maryland (1/16/2011).
Distant documentation: A Glaucous Gull picking up some things for dinner. (Salisbury, Maryland, 1/16/2011).