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Quarterly from the Roland Park Community Foundation • Volume Seventy-Four • Fall 2019 Save Our Serving the Pollinators Community and Our Trees Since 1944 Travelogue: Southern Utah 2 Volume 74 • Fall 2019 Table of Contents A Room With a View By Sally Foster i A Room With a View 1 Eddie’s Celebrates 75 Years in Roland Park y cell phone rang. It 4 Looking Out for the Neighbors Mwas Martha Marani, who asked, “Would you take photographs of the 5 Roland Water Tower Update peregrine falcons that are nesting in 6 Green and Growing: Our Free Tree the Roland Water Tower?” Program 7 Hitting the Right Chord: How Music “Huh,” I replied. Lessons Boost STEM I live in Roland Park and I have 8 Go Native: Herring Run Nursery travelled all over the world 9 Fall Landscaping Checklist photographing birds and other 10 Travelogue: Southern Utah wildlife, but I had no idea there 12 Protect Our Pollinators and Our Trees were falcons practically in my own Photo: Sally Foster 14 Friends School’s Global backyard. Exchange Program I grabbed my camera and longest lens and them in flight a real challenge. I hoped to 15 Skating to Seventy drove down to the tower. I didn’t see any catch the return flight when the bird would 16 Senior Games: A Roland Parker birds. Actually, that would be fairly typical. have a mourning dove, cardinal or blue Participates and Wins! A nesting pair has made it their home for at jay caught up in its talons. Sometimes, the 16 Greater Roland Park Home Sales least five years, and I had never seen them. falcon would disappear under the eaves with 17 Summer Recipe: Yet, the nearby neighbors are very much its meal. Other times, it would dine al fresco. Roasted Corn Chowder aware of their existence—mostly from the Feathers would fly as the bird slurped up the 18 Summer Recipe: Roasted Vegetable noise they make in the early morning or juicy insides of its prey. Caesar Salad with Grilled Ribeye evening. Rather than being annoyed, these After several weeks, the peregrine chicks 19 Boys’ Latin: A Community Partner neighbors seem proud and protective of in Puerto Rico were born, and Terry tried to count them. their feathered “friends”. 20 NFL Players Return to Gilman “I saw three,” he says. “No, four…maybe Suddenly, something swooshed past in front 21 The Park School Works to Restore a five.” Beloved Resource of me. It was indeed a falcon returning home I only saw three. I watched the mother 22 The Book Nook with something clutched in its talons. This gave me hope. My photo wasn’t particularly feeding one of the chicks and I saw the 24 KidLit Picks good—although it was sharp. The sky was young fledglings trying out their wings, 26 Calendar Highlights gray and the bird was dark—but I knew I hopping in short spurts along the edge. 27 Calendar Highlights: For the Kids would return. Hop, hop. 29 Birds of the Stony Run And, I did return, and return, and return— Finally, one day the fledglings were gone. Cover Photo: Sally Foster spending hours craning my neck upwards— Where did they go? Where are they now? Terry explains that the adults make the tower Editor: Martha Marani waiting and waiting. Sometimes, I would run into Terry Ross, who would fill me in on their home year-round. They might be a little Photographer: Sally Foster the comings and goings of the falcons. Terry harder to spot since they’re not hunting for Copy Editor: Nancy Chambers lives near the tower and is a member of the themselves and their offspring anymore. Advertising Manager: Martha Marani Baltimore Bird Club (baltimorebirdclub.org) As for the fledglings, like children who’ve Roland Park News is published quarterly by the “This is a nesting pair,” he explains—one of grown and “flown the nest,” they might two in Baltimore City. visit from time to time. All we can do is hope they will return next year and that the Sometimes, I would see one of the falcons Roland Water Tower will have a new room preening on a ledge. It was a long process. for them—one with a view. � ROLAND PARK The bird would lift a wing and tuck its head COMMUNITY FOUNDATION under and draw the feathers out like an Editor’s Note: Like the peregrine falcons, Andrew and I have launched our youngest into the world. P.O. Box 16214, Baltimore, MD 21210 archer pulling a bow. The falcon would Telephone: (410) 464-2533 Our daughter left for college in August. Our son glance around as if looking for lunch or leaves for his sophomore year in a few weeks. [email protected] dinner and then return to preening. We, too, hope they’ll return to Roland Park often. Maybe we should renovate our empty nest? MSM Chair, Mary Page Michel I would watch, waiting for the falcon to raise Treasurer, John Kevin its wings and take off to hunt. They can Design & Production: DesignConcept.com travel at speeds of up to 240 miles per hour Printer: Swanson Graphics during their hunting dives, making capturing Deadlines for copy, including announcements and calendar items, are February 1 for spring issue (March-May), May 1 for summer issue (June-August), August 1 for fall issue (September-November), and November 1 for winter issue (December-February). 29 Bird of the Stony Run By Amy Johanson having sighted 121 species. Rolfinke has led contingents of students and teachers precise number is difficult to pin down, to Stony Run Park each May through the Irvine but Baltimore is thought to host more than 250 T Nature Center’s annual Bird-a-Thon. In 2019, the bird species throughout the year. You can find group spotted 58 species, including a bald eagle, an many of these in the parks along the Stony osprey and an ovenbird—a small migrator with a big Run. song that sounds “teach-er, TEA-cher, TEA-CHER!” Wyman Park and Stony Run Park are two of Bird populations change along with the landscape. 100 “hotspots” around Baltimore mapped Parks notes the impact of the recent stream on eBird.org, Cornell Ornithology Lab’s app restoration in Wyman Park, which removed several and Web platform that allows birders of trees to make way for new wetlands. “I’ve seen fewer any experience to record and share their songbirds and more herons. A great egret showed up observations from the field. Data collected on a few times to feed in the new pools. When you are the eBird species checklists is used in scientific concerned about birds, you assess the health of their research, conservation and education, and stopping points...find ways to engage to help keep the site provides a wealth of information for habitats healthy.” knowledgeable and new birders alike. Learn more about birds and their habitats at the More than 20 birders have shared more than Friends of the Stony Run 4th Annual Urban Bird Fest 60 species checklists for Stony Run Park since in Linkwood Park on October 5, from 1 to 4 pm. � 2014, while more than 300 checklists have been posted from Wyman Park since eBird was Amy Johanson is vice president of the board of Friends of established. Stony Run (stonyrun.org), a volunteer-based organization dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of the entire With 100 species noted, educator Brian Rolfinke A yellow crowned night heron has Stony Run stream valley. FSR is interested in creating holds a record for sightings in Stony Run Park. been spotted recently in Wyman Park. cooperation among all stakeholders in the area– Photo: Alice Greely-Nelson neighborhoods, schools, government, people, animals Lynne Parks is the top eBirder in Wyman Park, and plants. We do windows… and doors! Fick Bros is licensed (MHIC #1256) and fully insured. We guarantee our work. Since 1915 exterior home repairs has been our family tradition. We are know as the company that takes pride in every job we do. 410-889-5525 www.fickbros.com 100 Years and Four Generations Later Still the Best Value in Town 1 Eddie’s Celebrates 75 Years in Roland Park By Kathy Hudson s is often Atrue of Roland Park life, Eddie’s is a family affair. Eddie’s of Roland Park is a three-generation, locally owned grocery business. Now it’s celebrating 75 years Nancy Cohen and in a neighborhood her sons, Michael (on her left) and where small Andrew (on her businesses have right) Schaffer, always played a vital celebrate the 75th role. anniversary of the three-generation Its founder was not grocery store. named Eddie but Photo: Sally Foster Victor, Victor Cohen. In 1944, he opened Victor’s Market in a prime location in the middle of the “business block” (a term Roland Park developers used for the shopping center) where Bank of America is today. Longtime Roland Park Nancy never dreamed she would work in the residents still remember Victor standing grocery business. “Girls didn’t do that.” Her at the door greeting customers. only job at Victor’s came in a single, two-hour stretch “doing extensions.” That meant checking In 1954, he added Eddie’s Supermarket items received from distributors and the prices farther up Roland Avenue, where the charged. “After two hours, I said, ‘I need to eat old Grauel’s Market had been. He and go home.’” Victor took his daughter to lunch called it Eddie’s because of a marketing at the Morg (Morgan & Millard drugstore, where collaborative he joined, one headed by Petit Louis is today).