Hi - I'm a new MOS member from Montgomery County.  This is the first list-serve I've ever used.
I've enjoyed reading the archive.

I have been up to see the Lapwing, and agree with everything Mr. Huy had to say. The two times I
went up there, I noticed deep ruts both on the road shoulders AND in the fields themselves, as
though some birders had the lack of consideration to actually drive their vehicles into a private
field.  This is unconscionable!

How were these issues handled with the invasion of birders hoping to see the Red-shanked (?)
falcon on Martha's Vineyard (or was it Nantucket?).  Did the local birding organization make
arrangements with private property owners?

On a more pleasant note, on a walk at Old Angler's on Saturday, my husband and I saw a pair of
Pied-billed grebes (his comment was "Look! Ducks that aren't mallards... ) on the river channel
south of Widewater, a large flock of juncoes bathing and foraging with a Golden-crowned kinglet
flitting above them near the Billy Goat Trail, and a very large, very active mixed flock of turkey and
black vultures circling over the river and roosting on small islands near the kayak pull-out.