Last Friday afternoon (January 12) I stopped by the site on Bulle Rock Parkway on my way home from North East, where I had 
searched for the Iceland Gull (in vain, as it turned out) that Sean McCandless has been seeing in the town park.  At the Clay-colored 
Sparrow site, however, I was scared off by an earth-moving machine that was working on the dirt pile alongside the erosion control 
fence.  Also, it wasn't clear to me that I could "get away with" parking on the gravel pull-off.  I briefly considered parking in the lot of 
the nearby office building but decided that might be risky, too.  And since the light was beginning to fade, and no one had reported 
seeing the bird during the week anyway...I didn't stop to try to find it.  Now I'm kicking myself, of course, because it would be (or 
would have been) a very nice life bird for me.

So, if any regular readers of MDOsprey saw the bird during the week:  Did you have any encounters with the construction crew?  Did 
anyone say "You can't park there" or "You're on private property?"

Thanks!

Elaine Hendricks
Greenbelt, MD  (PG County)
 

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