Nice forecast. 
    No birding in MD for weeks.
    Should I go?
    Sure.

    The Shore?
    Sure.

    Near Ocean City . . .
    Eagle's Landing GC -- no Eur. Wigeon
    (might've been out of sight)

    Try for some BH Nuthatches in the woods
    at the end of the Campground?
    Sure.

    Oops.
    Where's the Campground?
    What are all these bulldozers doing here?
    All those surveyor's markers?

    Perhaps I'm the last to have heard, but
    Progress marches on,
    or rather, 
    tramples on.

    Sigh?
    Sure.


    Leo Weigant **
    


    ** who did find some recompense in watching
    short-eared owls at dusk by Shorter's Wharf
    where they were undulating over the remnants
    of an extensive "Prescribed Burn."
    Such grace amid rings of fire
    that were either
    Dante-esque or 
    Johnny Cash-esque.
    Take your choice.