Around 9:30 am Friday I found yet another large Bobolink flock in the
switchgrass field opposite and east (downhill) of the observatory on Mt
Pleasant Rd. I'm estimating about 60 birds. I say another because I have not
noticed any in that field for at least a week, when there was a big flock
Around 4pm Saturday I managed a rough count of the Bobolink flock on Mt
Pleasant Rd - 97! The birds were again in the switchgrass field just west of
the dirt road (called Pine Woods Rd on some old maps) to the farm between the
two hills at the eastern end of Mt Pleasant Rd. The Bobolinks are
As of about 9:30 am Sunday, there were a number of Bobolinks near the road just
at the junction of Mt Pleasant Rd and dirt road between the hills (PIne Woods
Road). They are preening and resting in the switchgrass, a few on the wires
overhead, and in the roadside shrubbery. Straggling groups
