[MDOsprey] Shorebird migration underway in Frederick County

Hershberger, Wilbur (WHershbe@afrs.ars.usda.gov)
Mon, 12 Jul 1999 07:27:48 -0400


The shorebird migration is well underway in Frederick County.
Birds observed at the Harney Road ponds (actually sewage lagoons) on
Sunday, July 11, 1999 were:
Killdeer 70
Least sandpiper 26
Pectoral sandpiper 1
Spotted sandpiper 8
Solitary sandpiper 2

Also of note in Frederick County were 4 singing male Dickcissels and one
observed female along Oland road.  Also present were:
Savannah sparrow 4 singing males
Grasshopper sparrow 6 singing males
Eastern meadowlark 2 singing males
Bobolink 6 males on July 10
  
There were two singing male Dickcissels in a mowed filed on Lily Pons
road the same day.
Question:  Is there any state or Federal program to compensate farmers
for leaving fields un-mowed/un-harvested to benefit grassland birds.
(Yea right...)

Also seen in Fred. Co. were two Cliff swallows at the ponds on Willow
road.

Good Birding!
Wil Hershberger