Around noon on Tuesday there were eight beautiful Bobolinks in full
breeding plumage at Pickering Creek.  They were loitering near the west edge
of the field (grass and shrubs) that is south of the hog barn.  A walk down
the trail towards the new wetland ponds should turn them up if they are
still there.
    Other especially nice birds around there yesterday included one Great
Egret, one Northern Harrier, one baby Wood Duck in the most distant pond
(probably more there but the smarter ones stayed in the grass instead of
making a wild dash across a piece of open water), Baltimore and Orchard
Orioles, and an immature Bald Eagle.
 
    Several clutches of Bluebirds have fledged from the Pickering Creek
boxes, and most boxes have active nests of either Bluebirds or Tree
Swallows.  One nest of Carolina Chickadees has fledged; another was
"built-over" by a Bluebird pair; and one clutch of four
nearly-ready-to-fledge Bluebirds expired because some aggressive Tree
Swallows drove away the Bluebird parents that were attempting to feed their
young.  (This was the first time that I had seen such successful hostile
interaction between the Tree Swallows and the Bluebirds.)
 
 
Les Roslund
Talbot County
Easton MD 21601
 

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