I spent 3 hours this morning walking all of Snyder Rd and also the part of Cherry Rd alongside the fields by the airport. I found 3 GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS. Two were within the airport fence, one seen singing reasonably close and a bit west of the nearly bare-ground area by Gate O, and another seen singing inaudibly far to the south of there. The third was west of the northwestern-most stretch of Snyder Rd where there is good habitat on both sides of the fence, on top of which the bird sang when provoked by playback. I thought I had heard but not seen a bird here on 7 June. Today I may also have heard a Grasshopper Sparrow south of this stretch, south of the burned out cars, but I never saw it and heard it poorly. I did not find any in the field southwest of Cherry & Warren, but I only checked from Cherry.
I also counted 14 EASTERN MEADOWLARKS, 9 male BOBOLINKS, and 20 SAVANNAH SPARROWS, but I'm not very confident about the numbers on those birds which fly around so much.
--Dave Nutter
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