VA: Fairfax Co/Alexandria:mouth of Hunting Creek
5 Sep 2010: 1545–1645 EDT
scoping Hunting Creek, cove, adjacent Potomac from GW Parkway (Stone Bridge);
26–27 C; sunny with scattered clouds; winds 5 to 16 km/hr,variable to SW; low
tide c. 1245; allmud to E of parkway covered by 1620, and by then water back
into vegetation onflats between parkway and I95 N ramp; [#]= numbers W of
bridge;
CanadaGoose 160
Wood Duck [2]
American Wigeon 2
Mallard 170 + [60]
N Shoveler 12
Double-crested Cormorant 3
Great Blue Heron 10 + [2]
Great Egret 23 + [2]
Osprey 2
Bald Eagle 6 (2 ad, 4 im) (all on flats early, later 4 around
golfcourse nest tree)
Killdeer 8 + [6]
American Avocet 1
Spotted Sandpiper [1]
Greater Yellowlegs 12 + [6]
Lesser Yellowlegs 5 + [9]
Semipalmated Sandpiper 6 + [4]
Least Sandpiper 11
Short-billed Dowitcher 2
Laughing Gull 280 + [15]
Ring-billed Gull 475 + [85]
Herring Gull 11
Great Black-backed Gull 3
Caspian Tern 3
Forster's Tern 14
Rock Pigeon 7
Mourning Dove 2
Chimney Swift 1
American Crow 4
Fish Crow 35
N Rough-winged Swallow 3
European Starling 22
N Cardinal 2
Red-winged Blackbird 4
House Finch 2
House Sparrow 8
avocet was resting in first shallow channel to SE of bridgewhen I arrived and
for most of the time until it departed downstream justbefore 1630; dowitchers
were feeding nearby but flew off up Hunting Creek before 1600;
ShermanSuter
Alexandria VA 22307
ssuter aaas org
