Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 10:45:47 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Norman Saunders Subject: Dog days at Layhill Park MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Fran and I had a pleasant two hours wandering the north end of the park. We turned up Fox, Field, Lincoln's, Song, and White-throated Sparrows, a fair number of Dark-eyed Juncos, a lone Hermit Thrush, a pair of Eastern Palm Warblers, Winter Wren, and all the usual suspects for this time of year. Before we birded the north end we attempted to bird the south end of the park. Before we got out of the parking lot we were accosted by two ferocious-looking and ferocious-sounding pit bulls. The owner laughingly assured us "Oh, they won't hurt you." Once we got out of the parking lot and into the south field we were accosted by more dogs as their owners watched and sipped coffee. When we pointed out to a legion of dog owners there that morning that Montgomery County and the park have leash laws we were met with comments such as "You people just want this whole park for yourself", "No, there are no leash laws", "Yes, we saw the leash sign but no one ever pays attention to it and neither will we!". Oh, and there was the guy who just stared at us with great hostility when we pointed out the leash law sign. Sad commentary on our society these days--"I'll do whatever I can get away with and the hell with you!" Norm Saunders ================================= Norman C. Saunders Colesville, Montgomery County, Maryland marshhawk@att.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================