In a message dated 5/20/2011 6:29:36 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
 writes:

The  pastures at the NIH Animal Center are beginning to be mowed this week. 
I tried  to get them to hold off until the second week in June, but my 
pleas  
obviously were ignored.  As there are quite a few meadowlarks around,  I 
have 
assume that they are nesting, or trying to.  My question is  whether anyone 
can estimate the cost to nesting success of mowing now as  opposed to the 
second week in June.
I never expect any consideration from landowners or their mowing  
habits/guys.
The farm next to us has (attempted) nesting Grasshopper Sparrows but early  
mowing takes precedence. Why? Never have had a sensible explanation. 
Instead, I had a puzzling conversation with the landowner who professes a  
love of birds. His reason for allowing the early mowing was that the guy who 
 does the mowing always schedules it for an early date.  

Gail  Frantz
13955 Old Hanover Rd
Reisterstown,  MD
21136

############################

To unsubscribe from the MDOSPREY list:
write to: mailto:[log in to unmask]
or click the following link:
http://home.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=MDOSPREY&A=1