Date: 8/23/25 3:52 pm From: 'Gail Mackiernan' via Maryland & DC Birding <mdbirding...> Subject: Re: [MDBirding] Beginning of the end, it appears, for Konterra
I worked in Laurel in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and that area was almost all extensive, pretty barren gravel pits. Now, there may well have been Shortears using these areas in winter, as there usually was scrub vegetation between the pits, but do not recall. Maybe Jay Sheppard remembers.
Of course the real older birders out there will recall the Gude Nursery (adjacent to the long-gone Gude Landfill) with its host of overwintering owls.
Gail Mackiernan
Colesville
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> On Aug 23, 2025, at 5:59 PM, Russ Ruffing <russruffing...> wrote:
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> Developers walk away with all the money and the rest of us get to hold the bag of everything they leave behind. Forever.
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>> On Sat, Aug 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM Rick Borchelt <rborchelt...> wrote:
>> And its wintering population of Short-eared Owls.
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>> https://streetcarsuburbs.news/konterra-town-center-construction-to-start/ >>
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