Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 18:58:54 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Catherine Carroll Subject: Lapland Longspur - Orland Rd. fields, Frederick County Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Steve Sanford and I went to Frederick County today to look for American Pipits and any other birds we could find. We found many American Pipits in the usual tilled corn field with Horned Larks, one Meadowlark and a single Lapland Longspur. Also, just before the Orland Rd. stop we made a stop at Lily Pons and were searching from the road when at least fifty Wilson's Snipes flushed from the grass along side a large mud pond in the Lily Pons front yard. They flew around the ponds close to the road and then settled right back to where they had flushed. At this point two other birders - sorry, did not get names - pulled up in their car. They had just come from walking around the ponds inside the Lily Pons gates and told us they had flushed an American Bittern. She has seen it the past three days. Steve and I then did a fairly thorough search ourselves, but could not locate it. We did see two Great Blue Herons each make a meal out of garter (I presume) snakes. Ended up the day with a very brief visit to the hawk watch tower at Monument State Park. It was crowded with Sunday visitors, but the counters were still counting from the tower - we saw a couple of Sharpies, a Red-shouldered, a Red-tailed, a single Kestrel, a single Black Vulture, and many Turkey Vultures. Cathy Carroll Baltimore, MD clcarroll@voyager.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================