danny poet wrote:
>
>            Hi all   yesterday at work during  lunch some of the guys
> mentioned  a ground sparrow nest in the corn field they had been working in
> . they marked the location and told me about it .  As  this part  part of
> the grounds  is in my Queenstown  southeast   Atlas block tha covers most of
> Wye Island. I decided io check it out  after work .  turns out it was  a
> Grasshopper Sparrow nest with 4 eggs .  delighed with this find  I decied
> to do a quick check of wye Island  also found a carolina wren sitting on
> eggs  in a bluebird box . Other birds seen  were  a Scarlet tanager male ,
> Red - bellied  woodpecker,   Yellow billed cuckoo ,    bluebirds , osprey,
> Happy birding   Danny Poet   Qeenstown  Md   
>
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Danny - that is a very good find! GRSP nests are seldom discovered, even
when the birds are tracked carefully. And if they can successfully nest
in a cornfield under the right conditions, that would be valuable
information in figuring farming strategies they could live with. If you
have any more details, please reply off-line.

Fred Fallon