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MD Lapwing update

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Edward Boyd

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Maryland Birds & Birding

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Fri, 4 Mar 2005 12:07:24 -0500

I was at the Northern Lapwing site in Creagerstown, near Thurmont, MD, this 
morning until having to leave at 10:45 due to other obligations. While I was 
there the bird failed to make an appearance. I just got a call from someone 
that I had exchanged cell numbers with that said that the Lapwing has 
returned to the Graceham Rd. location just before 11:50 am. Hopefully I can 
make the trip out later today.

The feeling is that the snow cover has forced the bird out of its favored 
location, wherever that is - it is yet to be discovered, and into these 
fields where it can be observed. When the bird was first located, and in the 
following few days, most of the fields in the area were similarly snow 
covered and the bird was observed in puddles of melted snow on Graceham and 
Blacks Mill Rds. When the area fields were nearly clear of snow the bird 
disappeared, only to be refound after this week's snowstorm.

This message is forewarded to BIRDCHAT to help get the word passed to 
birders in nearby states that might want to make another attempt at this 
bird. Since there is still a great deal of snow cover on the area fields, 
this weekend possibly holds a better chance of the bird remaining in the 
fields where it has been found that two weeks ago.

Ed Boyd
Westminster, MD