Russ and all,
VDGIF has a page about wildlife and bridges:
http://www.dgif.virginia.gov/wildlife/wildlife_and_bridges.html
Six Bats is pretty good, I'd love to see that Big-eared guy. Who would
look for a Woodrat under a bridge? And what Woodrat was that?
Allegheny??? Man, twitching a Woodrat in Virginia would be awesome, LOL.
Good birds,
John Fox
Arlington
Russell Taylor wrote:
While on a boy scout canoe trip this weekend, I noticed that there is a pretty good colony of cliff swallows on the VA Rt. 50 bridge over the Shenandoah River. This is about 4 miles west beyond the Rt 17 intersection at Sky Meadows St. Park, headed towards Berryville. The attractive thing about the colony is that if you go over the bridge (westbound) and make the first right onto Swift Shoals Rd (VA Rt. 622), that road curves around under the bridge and has a parking area and boat ramp under Rt. 50. With a scope, you could get pretty good views of the nests and the swallows going in and out of them. They are on the upstream side, unfortunately most of the way east on the span (so pretty far for just binoculars).
Cheers,
Russ
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