[MDOsprey] Lilypons/Oland Road-August 1
Howard Youth (hmyouth@erols.com)
Mon, 02 Aug 1999 19:29:42 -0400
Gemma Radko, Andy Rabin, and myself saw the following at Lilypons (LP) and
Oland Road (OR) yesterday:
Large mixed flock(s) of swallows on the wires by the bridge (LP), including
good number of banks, up to 20 to 30 purple martins (only a few adult
males), many imm. tree swallows, and lesser numbers of n. rough-winged.
Barn swallows flew by, but alas no cliffs.
At LP, an adult yellow-crowned night-heron was eating a crayfish.
At OR, 10 or so grasshopper sparrows (many imm.), a singing vesper sparrow,
a few savannahs, but no upland sandpipers. A first-year male blue grosbeak
was singing, however. We also had an adult male blue grosbeak (LP) and a
pair of orchard orioles (still nesting?), also at LP.
Howard Youth
hmyouth@erols.com
Rockville, MD