Date: 6/29/25 5:50 pm From: Harry Armistead <harryarmistead...> Subject: [MDBirding] Ferry Neck, June 18-23, 2025.
FERRY NECK, JUNE 18-23, 2025. Oh, not much really.
JUNE 18, WEDNESDAY. Stimulating to drive through a storm on the way down, especially along Route 481, at times torrential rain with abundant lightning and thunder, often close, but, as happens often, by the time we get to Rigby’s Folly it is evident there hasn’t been much rain here.
Almost run over a killdeer at the Easton Acme, perhaps breeding on one of the area rooftops, esp. if it is a gravel one, as least terns sometimes have.
Arrive 6:15, fair or clear, 78 degrees F. (down from near 90 earlier thanks to the storm), light westerly winds. 2 gray squirrels. 3 deer (does).
JULY 19, THURSDAY. up to 92, fair, but rip snortin’ rain, lightning and thunder 5:30-dark causing the temperature to fall 20 degrees in less than an hour. c 1’ diameter dead tree across Ferry Neck Road prevented us from returning home from Easton so we beat it back to Royal Oak and had a light supper at ‘The General Store’, good food, but the place is too loud. Mrs. Weisman was there. Left a gift dopy of Our flag was still there at the Easton Library. gray squirrel at Easton. 2 ospreys. 2 robins.
JUNE 20, FRIDAY. low humidity, NW10, up to 82 only, clear, pleasant. brown thrasher 1, snowy egret 1, wild turkey 1, osprey 2, pileated woodpecker 1, Carolina wren 5. mostly stayed inside, did email. All fields have been planted with the emerging sorghum just barely visible, but didn’t inspect the clover field. 2 gray squirrels, 5 deer plus 3 at Swaine’s, 2 at Camper’s. The fields all driveable in spite of yesterday evening’s sometimes heavy rains. For once did not install the feeders.
Bellevue, 7:30 P.M., 1 gray squirrel, 1 herring gull, 5 deer on the outskirts.
JUNE 21, SATURDAY. fair, 74-88, SW 10. a killdeer going over high twice and in good voice. Tide is just right to see oysters next to the submerged tire squirt a few times. a bald eagle. Liz sees 8 Canada geese.
JUNE 22, SUNDAY. fair, SW 15, 76-90. with apologies to John O’Hara “from the terrace” (front porch actually). Ohara’s son, Patrick, and I were friendly. Patrick was a publisher’s rep who used to visit Jefferson on occasion. From our front porch:
Liz sees a fox squirrel only c. 25 feet away. A small buck distant in the Big Field. Skinks: 2 well-marked females and a fat but tailless male. A pileated woodpecker, a chipping sparrow, a yellow-billed cuckoo, a pair of eastern bluebirds at the lawn nest box, a killdeer, an osprey. Flutterbys: 2 red-spotted purples, the remainder all singletons: Horace’s dusky wing at the coreopsis, cabbage white, hackberry emperor, an unIDd sulphur, pearl crescent.
“Just sittin’ here a thousand miles from nowhere/In this one room country little shack/My only worldly possession/Is the raggedly old eleven foot cotton sack./ I wake up every night about midnight/people I just can’t sleep no more./… only crickets and frogs to keep me company/and the wind howlin’ round my door./Gonna leave here early in the mornin/I’m about to go out of my mind./Gonna find me some kind of companion/even if she’s dumb, deaf, crippled, and blind. - Mose Allison.
“One of these days I‘m gonna go back home/sit on the front porch and compose a poem.” likewise also Mose Allison. These from his Cotton Sack Period.
JUNE 23, MONDAY. head back to PA. Nothing to report this day.
Best wishes to all. - Harry Armistead, Bellevue and Philadelphia.
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