Bobolinks & updated field guide

Andy Rabin (andyrab@wam.umd.edu)
Fri, 7 May 1999 11:29:49 -0400


Elliot & others,

      Could you please tell me where Cromwell Valley Park is?  Sounds like a
place I'd like to visit.

     Also, for anyone interested, the new National Geographic Field Guide is
available (I saw a copy at Borders @ White Flint).  It looks really good-
much better color reproduction on the birds and maps, more species, more
Empid info (!), several new plates, and it's easier to find the info you
want in the accompanying text.

Andy Rabin
Gaithersburg MD
andyrab@wam.umd.edu

P.S. 15 warbler species this morning!



-----Original Message-----
From: Elliot Kirschbaum <ekirschb@bcpl.net>
To: MD Osprey <mdosprey@ARI.Net>
Date: Friday, May 07, 1999 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: bobolinks at Cromwell Valley Park


>On 5/6/99 10:43 PM Geoff Graff said
>
>>> I had a flock of at least 25 bobolinks at 7:20 PM on 5/6 at Cromwell
>>> Valley Park, Baltimore County.  Directions:  From the Willow Brook Farm
>>> entrance, park in the main parking lot.  Walk back across the bridge and
>>> take the stream path to the right.  The birds could be in any of the
>>> fields between the stream and Cromwell Bridge Rd.  Tonight they were
>>> almost to the Sherwood Farm road.
>>>
>>> Last year bobolinks were at Cromwell Valley at the same time, and stayed
>>> at least a few days.
>>>
>>>                 Peter Lev
>>>                 Towson, MD
>>
>>
>>
>>That's great, Peter!  Now I could get this flock on the list for the May
>>Count. Jim Myers and I will lead a seperate walk at the park to cover
>>more grounds. Maybe you can join us, meet at parking lot at 8am.
>
>Cromwell Valley Park is one of the best places around to see Bobolinks. I
>have found them there every year since I began birding the park several
>years ago. This year I had them on Wednesday, May 5. They are hard to
>count as they are constantly flying up out of the grass. I saw them at
>the same location Peter mentioned, and would guess that there could have
>been as many as 50. In prior years I have also seen them in the other
>fields in the park.
>
>
>Elliot Kirschbaum
>Baltimore, MD USA
>mailto:ekirschb@bcpl.net
>