Date: 9/3/26 4:42 pm From: Harry Armistead <harryarmistead...> Subject: [MDBirding] Ferry Neck, August 23-28, 2026
FERRY NECK (Rigby’s Folly), AUGUST 23 - 28, 2026. A time of blooming clematis (also a time of Clamato Juice) with some partridge pea enlivening the fields.
AUGUST 23, SUNDAY. arrive 4 P.M. NW 10-15, low humidity, 80 degree F., fair then becoming cloudy. It has rained a goodly amount. Big limb down from the red maple next to the tire swing. Mowing probably last Tue. or Wed. A few fireflies. gray squirrel 2. two small fawns.
AUGUST 24, MONDAY. At Blackwater NWR’s annual get together for Friends at the Visitor Center. Lots of good, informative lowdown on what the refuge is up to. Liz does all the driving.
NW 10-15, fair, a beauty, low 80s, becoming overcast with a chance of macaroni and cheese. finally clearing in the NW distance at dusk. Not much at Rigby’s Folly: great egret 2, great blue heron 1, osprey 2, gray squirrel 2, Forster’s tern 3.
AUGUST 25, known to the cognoscenti (if you will) as, simply, TUESDAY. Moonset 3:38 A.M. 68-80, clear, NW 5-10 cloudless sulphur, 1, has the same arresting color as signs announcing school zones. 4 gray squirrels. 1 pileated woodpecker. blue-winged warbler 1. At Blackwater yesterday Jim Green mentioned he had seen a blue-winged warbler and least flycatcher earlier that morning, I forget where. 2 classic early fall migrants.
AUGUST 26, WEDNESDAY. up to 80+ degrees F., NW 5-10 becoming SW 10. Our bed is oriented so that if I look across the room to the southwest, sometimes I can see the moonset thru the SW window. This is the case tonight, for the 2nd time ever. There are advantageous, as I lie there, to having a fairly benign case of sleep disorder.
Big cicada choruses, perhaps even 3 species. (?). Pileated woodpecker 1, an almost daily occurrence, just driving slowly through our woods I think sets it (them?) off to call.
Liz sees a small skink on the back porch. She also photographs a very small Cope’s gray tree frog (dime-sized) on top of a post by the front steps and finds a small one inside the back porch door frame. Great egret 1 in Field 4.
We visit Nancy Lytell at Tranquility 2:45 - 5:15 that she has placed for sale, see 3 bald eagles, 5 ospreys, and 3 royal terns plus a few baby Fowler’s toads and Cope’s gray tree frogs. Nancy and her late husband Michael have been ideal neighbors of 31 years. Nancy is moving to a retirement home.
100 years ago my grandfather, Henry Tucker, acquired Tranquility and the surrounding 280 acres for an amount that might suffice for only a high ground, very prime acre or so today (not adjusted for inflationary value change, but still …).
AUGUST 27, THURSDAY. 74-84, fair, south 11. Gray squirrel eats a toadstool. Butterflies: black swallowtail, red-spotted purple, hackberry emperor, tiger swallowtail: 1 each. At dusk the fireflies are still at it.
AUGUST 28, FRIDAY. Young Cope’s gray tree frog on the very top of a lawn chair out by the tire swing. The young, counterintuitively, are yellow-greenish. 74-82 today, leave at 11:17 A.M., when it’s overcast and 79, winds NW 6.
Best to all. - Harry Armistead, Bellevue & Philadelphia.
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