Re: [MDOsprey] Least Terns
GAIL@UMDD.UMD.EDU
Mon, 21 Jun 99 09:42:59 EDT
A few years ago I was training my dogs at the CTA Training Building in
Beltsville, which is in an industrial park area east of RT. 1 and the railroad
tracks, west of Old Baltimore Road, and about mid-way between Powder Mill
Rd. and Muirkirk Rd. We would often see Least Terns, sometimes carrying small
fish, pass overhead in a general S to N direction. However, we were never
able to find what building (if any) they were nesting on. Just a few birds
-- never more than two at a time.
It is not inconceivable that the birds being seen in Greenbelt represent the
same breeding group -- the question is, where?? Our sightings would indicate
that they were/are? nesting north of the industrial park, as they were carrying
small fish north past our point of reference.
Gail Mackiernan