CROSSBILLS IN BALTIMORE COUNTY
Rick Blom (rblom@blazie.com)
Wed, 24 Dec 1997 08:30:04 -0500
Yesterday, Dec. 23, I had both crossbills along the entrance road
to Pine Ridge Golf Course at Loch Raven. It was the sixth time I have
checked the area, which has large stands of pine. It is a public course and
anyone can go in. The first place to park is in the lot at the driving
range, and you can walk back down the road from there. I had three or four
flocks of Reds, totalling perhaps 14 birds, although if there was no
overlap it could have been 22. There were four White-wingeds, three females
and a male, about half-way between the lot and the entrance.
The entrance to the golf course is on Dulaney Valley Road four or
five miles north of the Baltimore Beltway.
This pushes my county list to 311, which is probably good for
second place, which is as high as I will ever get unless Hank Kaestner
loses his mind and moves to California. Sigh.
Rick
"Everywhere I go I'm asked if the university stifles writers. My opinion is
that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a bestseller that could
have been prevented by a good teacher." Flannery O'Connor
Rick Blom
rblom@blazie.com
Bel Air, Maryland