This is a report for the Cecil County Landfill in North East, Maryland for Saturday, December 19, 1998 as part of the Elkton Christmas Bird Count. Observers: Rick Blom and Gene Scarpulla (2 observers in 1 party) Limits of Field Work: 0730 - 1600 Total Party hours: 8.5 (all on foot) Total Party Miles: 0 Black Vulture 4 Turkey Vulture 50 Snow Goose (white morph) 750 (flyover) Snow Goose (blue morph) 2 (flyover) Canada Goose 25 (flyover) Bald Eagle 1 (immature) Cooper's Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 1 (immature) Killdeer 3 *LAUGHING GULL *2 (adult winter) Ring-billed Gull 800 Herring Gull 2000 *ICELAND GULL *3 (first-winter) *ICELAND/THAYER'S sp. *1 (first-winter) *LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL *6 (1 third-winter, 5 adult winter) Great Black-backed Gull 300 Northern Flicker 1 Blue Jay 2 American Crow 50 Fish Crow 25 crow sp. 225 Tufted Titmouse 1 Carolina Wren 2 Northern Mockingbird 1 European Starling 500 Field Sparrow 9 Savannah Sparrow 3 Song Sparrow 3 White-throated Sparrow 6 Northern Cardinal 1 Red-winged Blackbird 1000 (fly over) Common Grackle 4000 (fly over) Total Species: 29 Gene Scarpulla Towson, Maryland gscarp@erols.com