Field Trip Report
Robert Ringler (ringler@cct.infi.net)
Sat, 13 Jun 1998 22:49:50 -0700
On Saturday June 13 the Baltimore Bird Club field trip to the grasslands
and adjacent habitats of NW Carroll County MD and southern Adams County
PA was very successful. We started on Roops Mill Rd with Willow
Flycatcher and both orioles, but the highlight here was Warbling Vireo
feeding young in the nest. On Jasontown Rd we saw Grasshopper and Vesper
sparrows and Horned Lark, all singing. On Baust Church Rd were 3
Red-headed Woodpeckers. Along Stonesifer Rd were another Grasshopper
Sparrow, Meadowlarks, and also a singing Savannah Sparrow. The Bobolink
field at Hagerstown Lane had been mowed and there were no Bobolinks.
However, at the NW corner of the intersection of Sixes Bridge Rd and
Mumma Ford Rd we saw both singing Bobolink and Dickcissel. The Bobolink
was on the Mumma Ford Rd side and the Dickcissel was down Sixes Bridge Rd
about .2 to .3 mile though it could be heard from the intersection. We
continued north into Adams County where we found another singing
Dickcissel, a pair of Killdeer with four small downy young in the middle
of the road, more Bobolinks and Red-headed Woodpeckers, and finished with
a Loggerhead Shrike. Best butterfly of the trip was a Bronze Copper on
Mumma Ford Rd.
Bob Ringler