Fred,
Where is Aquasco Farms? Is it open to the public?
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Susan Henyon
Upper Marlboro, MD 20772
> I visited several spots along the Patuxent in Prince George's County this
> afternoon. The highlight was a Vesper Sparrow at Aquasco Farms. It was at
> the rear end of the park, near the large barn at the center of a field.
> The barn also has a trailer and some farm equipment next to it. I heard a
> chip note from the grass, and then the bird popped up into a shrub next to
> the barn. I got great looks at it for a minute or more at fairly close
> range, seeing the complete white eye ring. The bird then flew part way
> across the field and landed in a snag on a bush, where I continued to view
> it through my scope.
>
> Other highlights were:
>
> At Merkle:
>
> An adult male Northern Harrier flushed up about 40 or 50 Wilson's Snipe
> from the pond behind the visitor's center. Chipping Sparrows were singing
> all around the fields nearby. The Purple Martin's have returned to the
> Martin houses outside the visitor's center.
>
> At Aquasco Farms:
>
> Beside the Vesper Sparrow, also present was a beautiful Savannah Sparrow,
> many Chippies, several Field Sparrows, a pair of Kestrels, and some
> Bluebirds.
>
> At Eagle Harbor:
>
> At least 15 Royal Terns, plus some Ringers, Herring Gulls, and Great Black
> Backed Gulls. A few Caspian Terns and Forster's Terns were also present,
> at least until the pair of Bald Eagles came by. Many, many Double Crested
> Cormorants were also around. A Song Sparrow was singing, and several Tree
> Swallows were on the wires.
>
> At Magruder's Ferry Landing:
>
> Another Bald Eagle, several Osprey, some Red Breasted Mergansers, a
> Gadwall, and two White Throated Sparrows.
>
> Fred Shaffer
> Patuxent MOS
>
>
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