VA BIRDers,
After parting with Marc, I headed to the Occoquan Marina, stopping for one
of the worst hot dogs I have ever attempted to eat (from a joint with 2
numbers in its name). The marina had some new species for the day, to wit:
4 distant Gadwall mixed in with scaup
40 RB Mergansers
40 Ruddy Ducks
2 Horned Grebes
1 Great Egret
1 Bonaparte's Gull
18 Herring Gulls
1 Chimney Swift
Plus 80 scaup (mostly Lesser), DC Cormorants, vultures, Osprey, eagles,
American Coots, etc.
I drove over to Fairfax Co to a pond near Vulcan off of Rt 123 - no ducks
but a Cooper's Hawk. A short hawk watch near the landfill produced nothing
new but additional Red-tailed Hawk and Bald Eagles. A stop at Burke Lake
was unproductive (and quite busy in the early afternoon, you may wish to
avoid). Heading home a Broad-winged Hawk flew over at Kingstowne.
At about 630pm I visited Dyke Marsh in the marina area. New species were a
pair of Northern Shoveler and 7 Bufflehead mixed in with a Greater/Lesser
Scaup group. And a Peregrine on the Wilson Bridge. Other notables were RB
Mergansers, Common Loon and 21 Caspian Terns. I ended the day at 104
species.
Kurt Gaskill
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Subject: [Va-bird] Prince William migrants, 13 warbler species
A pretty good morning in the Dumfries-Woodbridge area this morning. I
birded with Kurt Gaskill and we visited Breckenridge Rd., Possum Pt., Metz
Wetlands, and Leesylvania SP. Quite a few recent arrivals, including wood
thrush, scarlet tanager, red-eyed vireo, great-crested flycatcher, house
wren, worm-eating warbler, hooded warbler, yellow warbler, prairie warbler,
prothonotary warbler, and green heron. Other notables were a raven at Metz,
about a dozen rusty blackbirds at Metz, blue-winged teal, greater scaup,
blue-headed vireo, red-headed woodpecker, eastern whip-poor-will, savannah
sparrow, and eastern kingbird. I had my first double-digit warbler morning
with 13. I tallied 92 species in all.
Marc Ribaudo
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