Bluebird Report Highlights Fort Detrick Area Yields
A column on local bluebirds notes a strong season with 52 fledged at Fort Detrick Main Post and Area B from 17 boxes. Henry Wallace records 21 first clutch, 25 second, six third, while others add nests on pipes near pipelines. Readers share nests, sparrows, and ongoing efforts to encourage nesting.
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Morris Green
Walkersville
Frederick County
Morris
Dave Lakin
Woodsboro
Henry Wallace
Fort Detrick
Henry
Shookstown Road
Dottie Coyle
Linganore Road
Dottie
Julia
Fort Detrick Main Post
Wallace
Regina Cope
Woodbine
Morgan Station
Bequest to Frederick County Public Libraries Sets Proposals
Inheritor Dorothy Grayble Bentz left her estate to FCPL with no limits. a committee will evaluate proposals against donor intent, long range plan, and potential matching funds. A public meeting November 20 will reveal recommendations as staff changes continue across the system.
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Bentz
Dorothy Grayble Bentz
Frederick County
FCPL
Public Library Administration
Sean Barnett
Library of Congress
Joan Prescott
Kathy Flynn
C. Burr Artz
Tina Prensky
Rochester
N.Y
Tina
Roxine Thompson
Susan Schreiber Peters
Wanda Hill
Oklahoma
Labor Day
Jerry Johnson
Jerry
Joan Fisher
Middletown
Ruth McBride
Linda Howard
Gail Parker
Maryland
Virginia
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Carolinas
Ohio
St. Croix
Virgin Islands
Frederick
Elizabeth Pelle
Utica
Retired couple turn sanctuary into dawn birding haven
Fred Baumgartner and Marguerite Baumgartner, longtime birders in a rugged 160 acre refuge near Jay Oklahoma, wake at dawn to track birds. Their Little Lewis Whirlwind Nature School and Sanctuary preserves memories of Cherokee land and hosts interns and students while Marguerite compiles 50 years of bird banding data and Fred maintains species checklists.
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Jay
Okda
Fred Baumgartner
Little
Lewis
Little Lewis
Marguerite Baumgartner
Fred
Marguerite
U.S. 59
Cornell University
Rochester
Cornell
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Baumgartners
Michigan Conservation Department
Stillwater
Wildlife Ecology
Oklahoma State University
Oklahoma Ornithological Society
Oklahoma Birdlife
College of Natural Resources
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
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Elinor Miller
Meredith Springer
Regina
Howard County Department of Recreation and Parks
Atlantic City
Hickory Ridge Place
Columbia
New York City
Midtown Manhattan
George Howard
Ellicott City
Big Apple
Recreation Department
The
Sands Casino
Divine
Lancaster
Columbia Mall
Sam
Library News
Indianapolis
Wisconsin
Nature School
the News
Frederick, Md
Pelle
Lake Eskay
Bea Keilholtz
Barbara White
John Fisher
Joan Babb
Braddock Heights
Jean Davis
M-L
Talbott Factory
Walnut Street
Waynesboro
SUN
Frederick County Landmarks Foundation
Thomas Wright
Cershwr
Weinberg Center
Patrick
Schifferstadt
Hood
Dixie Miller
Hood College
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