Lynette,
   You will be less than ten minutes drive from the McKeldin Area of Patapsco Valley State Park.  You can park at the intersection of Marriottsville Road and Marriottsville Road #2 and walk in with no fee.  Also, you will be working in an unfinished Atlas block.  Any data you collect at Springfield will be helpful.  It is in Finksburg SW4.

> From: Lynette Fullerton <>
> Date: 2004/06/28 Mon AM 09:02:54 EDT
> To: 
> Subject: [MDOSPREY] Yard birds and RFI
> Now for the other half of the e-mail.  I've been
> reporting off and on from my lunchtime walks in
> Crownsville, but that will be coming to an end very
> soon.  The hospital is closing, and I'm being
> transferred to Springfield hospital, in Sykesville.
> That's okay, I don't have much of a Carroll County
> list yet - good time to get started, right?  My first
> day there will be this Wednesday.  I'd love to hear
> from folks around there - I need my lunchtime birding
> fix!  It's a beautiful campus, so I might not even
> have to leave to go birding...but on the off chance
> that I do actually get tired of it, could people
> suggest places that I can get to (and back) on my
> lunch hour?  Piney Run is close-ish, but I don't
> really want to pay a fee to get in for half an hour...

Bob Ringler
Eldersburg MD