Re: [MDOsprey] Shorebird migration underway in Frederick County
Dave Powell (dpowell@netfox.net)
Mon, 12 Jul 1999 09:05:35 -0000
The Federal Government does have a program for paying farmers not to farm
acreage, called CREP - Crop Reduction Enhancement Program. The size does not
matter, I have personally placed two acres into the program. The agreement
is for ten to fifteen years, depending on what you plans are for your
property.
Are the Harney Road ponds open to the public? Looks like a good spot.
Dave Powell
Harford Bird Club
-----Original Message-----
From: Hershberger, Wilbur <WHershbe@afrs.ars.usda.gov>
To: 'mdosprey@ARI.Net' <mdosprey@ARI.Net>
Date: Monday, July 12, 1999 11:04 AM
Subject: [MDOsprey] Shorebird migration underway in Frederick County
>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