Hi, All--

Rick Sussman has found a juvenile White Ibis at the Blue Mash Nature
Trail in northeastern Montgomery Co. It is in a pond on the left as you
come in from the Zion Rd parking lot and approach the gate and fence
that surround the old landfill. From the path, the pond is mostly
obscured, and you need to bushwhack through goldenrod, etc, to get a
view. The pond also has some shorebirds.

To reach Blue Mash: take Georgia Ave north to Olney, take a left and
head northwest on 108. Just past the huge soccer complex, take a right
onto Zion Rd. Cross Brookeville Rd. The entrance to the small parking
lot will be about a quarter-mile ahead (I think), and on your left.

Lydia Schindler
Darnestown
Darnestown