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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