Hi Colin,

Just a word of caution regarding the BARC Security.  They can sometimes 
get rather unreasonable about folks getting out of their cars to look 
around on BARC.  I know it sounds unnecessary, but just a word to the 
wise.  I nearly froze one winter morning waiting for a guard's 
supervisor to arrive and say I was not a threat because I was attempting 
to photograph some birds from the ditch along Beaverdam Road (which is a 
public road).  I had in my possession an expired birding permit and a 
retired employee's ID, but that didn't impress the guard.

As to Bobolinks, we saw over a 100 on BARC at the May Count today.

Douglas Bolt
DougandMarie.com
Beltsville, MD USA



Colin Hebert wrote:
> I was able to locate the flock of BOBOLINKS this afternoon in the spot Derek
> described.  They were hanging out in some rather short trees in a cow field
> (near the cows) to the northeast of the intersection of Beaver Dam and Sheep
> Rd.  I parked right across from the water treatment plant, walked east down
> beaver dam for about 50 feet as Derek mentioned, and the field was to my
> left.  No MEADOWLARKS though, oh well.
>
> -Colin Hebert
> Beltsville, MD
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> On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Derek C. Richardson <>
> wrote:
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>> The BOBOLINKS reported on MDOSPREY a few days ago were easy to find this
>> afternoon near the Beltsville water treatment plant in PG County (my GPS
>> indicated that the spot was around 7007 Beaver Dam Rd, about 50 ft east of
>> the intersection with Sheep Rd).  A nice flock of 50 or so males and females
>> either chattering in the treetops or foraging in the tall grasses on the
>> opposite side of the road from the plant.  Scope recommended but not
>> essential.  As a bonus, there were 2 EASTERN MEADOWLARKS among them as well,
>> one singing loudly.  Also plenty of swallows (I found TREE and BARN but
>> didn't search too carefully; I only had 20 mins).
>>
>> Enjoy,
>>
>> D
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>> --
>> Derek C. Richardson, Laurel, PG County, MD
>> http://www.astro.umd.edu/~dcr/Archives/Photos/birds.html<http://www.astro.umd.edu/%7Edcr/Archives/Photos/birds.html>
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