Hola,
I spent about an hour along Crenshaw Road near the village of Rectortown in
northern Fauquier County on Monday evening 12 November. I arrived about
four-thirty PM. One Short-eared Owl flew over the field and perched in a tree
at
about five PM. Just one.
There were two harriers, an adult male and a distant brown one. What was
interesting was the flock of about 300 pipits that were circling the field and
landing in it, only to get up ten minutes later and circle again. I'm
calling them all pipits, but I only heard a few birds calling. Who knows what
else
was in the flock. For the few years that I've been hanging out at this
field, this is the first time I've had a big number of pipits. Occasionally a
few would fly overhead, but nothing like this. That grass out there seems a
little long for their tastes, and also makes it impossible to scrutinize the
flock when it lands.
There was one Woodcock flying by, and a single Kestrel, as well as a dozen
or so White-crowned Sparrows and at least two American Tree Sparrows along the
hedgerow.
Cheers,
Todd
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Todd Michael Day
Jeffersonton, Virginia
Culpeper County, USA
blkvulture@xxxxxxx
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