A neighbor of mine, Mary Ellen Culotta and her son, Justin, both newish
birders but careful observers reported to me that they saw a Swallow-tailed
Kite pass over the Germantown Soccerplex today around 10 AM. They spotted
the bird coming in from SE direction and heading off towards the NW.
I got up to Soccerplex around 10:30 AM, no kite but had some Bobolinks in
grassy area below the power lines.
Nearby along Old Bucklodge Ln, I enjoyed watching a Grasshopper Sparrow
perched on a fence next to the road, singing and doing some sorta of
"hunchbacked" wing flutter maneuver. Along the same road, also spotted a
female Bufflehead in a farm pond that may be still around due to an injury
to its left wing. This pond is on left side of road about a .4 miles if
traveling along Old Bucklodge Ln from its intersection w/ White Ground Rd.
Andy Martin
Gaithersburg
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