[MDOsprey] Floyd report: Montgomery Co., Md.
Rob (robert@csa.com)
Thu, 16 Sep 1999 16:09:44 -0400
Hi all,
This afternoon (Sept. 16) I went to Black Hill Regional Park, Montgomery
Co., Md., and ran in to Paul O'Brien (at low velocity, so his Saturn is
still intact (-;). We were at the bridge over the reservoir for close to
half an hour around 2 to 2:30 pm or so. There was one Common Tern, a
species less than annual in the county according to the Yellow Book, and
four Pied-billed Grebes. I had stopped briefly at the bridge a half hour
earlier and saw two Sterna terns under poorer conditions. When I spotted
two Turkey Vultures flying northwest in to the 25 mph winds and diminishing
rain, I decided it was time to leave.
I drove to a farm pond northwest of Olney that sometimes has shorebirds but
saw none. A small group of Tree Swallows coursed over the pond, which had
very high water level because the rain. A lovely area of tickseed
sunflowers (Bidens sp.) along the southwest shore was in a few inches of
water because of the winds out of the north.
Best,
Rob
Rob (Robert) Hilton--*robert@csa.com*--Bethesda, Md. (very close to
Washington, DC)