Re: New "pond" in Montgomery County

Robert (robert@csa.com)
Thu, 06 May 1999 10:36:05 -0400


Yesterday afternoon at the Route 108 pond near the old landfill were a
Lesser Yellowlegs, 5-7 Least Sandpipers, and 3 Spotted Sandpipers.  

At 07:56 AM 5/6/99 EDT, you wrote:
>
>For those who enjoy checking out the ponds in northern Montgomery
>County, I found another one (sort of).  A new erosion control
>pond has been created on Dover Road, south of East Gude (directions:
>North on 355 from Rockville, east (right) on E. Gude, right on
>Dover Rd.).  I presume the pond is related to the new construction
>on the corner of E. Gude and Dover.
>   Yesterday when I went to pick up my car at the mechanics, I
>found at the new pond 2 Killdeer and 2 Solitary Sandpipers.  An
>Indigo Bunting was in the tangle across from the pond.
>                              Jim
>
>                              Jim Felley
>                              irmss668@sivm.si.edu
>                              Smithsonian Institution
>