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[va-bird] Re: Northern Lapwing in Maryland

  • From: "Renee Grebe" <grebe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 13:55:31 -0800 (PST)
If anyone is interested in heading up there this weekend (either Saturday
or Sunday), please let me know.  I'd be happy to either drive folks up
there, or I'd also be happy to be on a "phone chain" if the bird is
spotted.

Contact me if you can help me out! :)
-Renee Grebe
 Alexandria, VA


> Virginia Birders,
>     The Northern Lapwing continues to be seen this  afternoon along
> Graceham
> Road, Creagerstown, Maryland.  I arrived there at  1:45 p.m. to find eight
> or
> so birders with happy smiles on their faces and the  Lapwing in their
> scopes.
> For me, roadside birding at its best.  The  Lapwing was in its customary
> field, foraging desultorily near the fence on the  left side of the field
> as you
> face it from the road.  After a while the  bird flew away from the road,
> still
> in that field and still fairly close to  that fenceline.
>     A favor, please, to the homeowners whose driveway is on  the other
> side
> of that fenceline and who have been friendly to us birders.   Do not turn
> your
> car around in their driveway.  Whenever a car does that,  their parrot
> goes
> nuts, that sets off their dogs, and they must endure the  cacophony for
> quite
> awhile until the animals settle down.
>     The Lapwing is a great bird.  Go for it.
>     Good birding.  Stuart White, McLean,  Virginia
>
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