Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 07:55:55 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Rick Sussman Subject: Oland Rd. lappies MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all, Some business took me to Frederick yesterday morning, and on my way home I decided to stop on Oland Rd. to see if the Lapland Longspurs were still around. There is a huge flock of Horned Larks still feeding in a manured field along the road (the site of the famous Snowy Owl in 2000). There were numerous lappies in the flock, giving me adequate looks through the scope. Many of the larks actually came onto the road to feed (?) briefly before flying back into the fields. There wasn't a lot of traffic, but the road edge is still mostly snow and ice so parking was tricky. Also present was a flyby Harrier and a small flock of Tundra Swans in the same field. No Peregrine. No Pipit, no Snow Buntings (while I was there) that I saw. A word of note; while I was there a crew of construction workers were erecting a large sign at the intersection of Rt 85 and Oland Rd. (I think) informing that the site is for sale by a realtor, some hundrend and eighty acres or so. Another sign was at the other end of Oland Rd. at the intersection with New Design Rd. So get up and see these birds, as the site may be houses by next winter... This is also one of the best fields for Upland Sandpipers... Rick Sussman Ashton,MD warblerick@aol.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================