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["Brenda Tekin" <bt8x@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff Blalock continues to experience posting problems and has asked that I
forward the following Sunday report to VA-Bird.  Brenda Tekin,
Charlottesville, VA


Please forward to VA-Bird List for me as I still cannot post to it.

Today Sunday 06 Mar 05 at Staunton River Battlefield State Park, I found the
following:

First as I walked into the observation tower behind the office I saw two
Common Ravens.  They were playing aerial tag for a few minutes and one would
even call out a whooo as it went into a nose dive and did a snap roll.  It
did this three times before it flew off.

Another unusual sighting today was a single Tree Swallow.  Blue Book early
date shows 20 Mar for the piedmont.

At the duck ponds at the lower part of the Park a single GB Heron was seen
and 30 Ring-necked Ducks, 3 Hooded Mergansers and a single male Wood Duck.

Several Swamp Sparrows were observed as well as Yellow-rumped Warblers.

Other sightings at the cooling pond at the Clover power plant included 8
male Red-breasted Mergansers and 30 Gadwall Ducks along with a large flock
of Ring-billed Gulls.

Good Birding Always

Jeff Blalock
South Boston, VA


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