I have the records in front of me Kurt.
We tallied 62 eagles at Mason Neck on the CBC.
My suggested adjustments to preclude double-counting brought the total down to
49, still an impressive number!
Larry Cartwright
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I don’t have my notes in front of me but this area of the Christmas Bird Count
tallied over 50 Bald Eagles.
Kurt Gaskill
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On Jan 8, 2018, at 10:15 AM, Barbara via va-bird <va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Despite much of the Potomac River and Belmont Bay being frozen in
Fairfaxand Prince William counties, I counted 12 adult and juvenile eagles on
the ice 1/7/18 on Belmont Bay between Mason Neck State Park and OccoquanBay
National Wildlife Refuge. (I also saw two mute (?) swans.) It's a great
time to visit OBNWR before the eagles return to their nest on the Charlie
Road trail because that's when Fish & Wildlife closes that trail. I was told
that due to cutbacks, they will NOT mow a trail this year to detour around
that closure.My private pix (temporarily) here:
https://www.flickr.com/gp/olympusbjs/Bb840KOBNWR: ;
https://www.fws.gov/uploadedFiles/Occoquangenmap.pdf#aMason Neck: ;
http://www.dcr.virginia.gov/state-parks/mason-neck#general_information
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