Hi Tyler --

The days of steaming manure (cow, not horse) on Oland Road are long 
gone -- as are almost all the dairy farms in the Buckeystown area. the 
ones that are left use manure managemant (part of the Chesapeake Bay 
protection plan) and so very little ends up on the fields. Maybe whay we 
had NO larks, much less any lappies, for the Sugarloaf CBC in Sector 7 
(Oland Rd.) -- or anywhere else we looked, either!

We did check early afternoon yesterday and had 7 larks and 3 Savannah 
Sparrows along Oland, which is snow-covered (the birds were on the 
narrow grassy verge) -- no lappies although a few were reported from 
earlier in the day.

If development and loss of farmland continues at the current pace in 
southern Frederick, another great birding area will fade away. We have 
been doing the CBC here for about 25 years and every year there seems 
to be less habitat. Thank God for Lilypons!

Gail Mackiernan
Colesville,
MD



Original Message:
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From: James Tyler Bell 
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:07:05 -0800
To: 
Subject: [MDOSPREY] Turner Road, Calvert


Jane Kostenko and I ventured over to Turner Road, in southern Calvert  
<snip>. Maybe we need a good cover of snow (almost all of our huge 1 
inch snowfall is gone) and some steaming horse manure like Oland 
Road to concentrate the birds?
 
Tyler Bell

California, Maryland 


      

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