FreeLists / va-bird / [va-bird] Occoquan Refuge today

["Larry" <prowarbler@xxxxxxxxx>]

I had a very nice day at Occoquan (Prince William County) today in the company 
of several nice people.  As we entered the refuge, we were greeted to the songs 
of a Brown Thrasher and several Field Sparrows.  By day's end, I must have 
tallied 25 Field Sparrows. 

Raptors consisted of 4 pair of Ospreys plus a single bird that appeared to be 
searching for a mate, a pair of Am. Kestrels, at least 3 Bald Eagles, and a 
lone Harrier hunting over the fields.  

Laura Catterton spotted the first Bonaparte's Gulls of the day.  We had at 
least a dozen of these little guys headed northbound. We tallied one Caspian 
and one Forster's Tern. We also had great views of a Common Snipe. 

We tallied 3 Eastern Phoebes and toward the end of the morning saw one Rusty 
Blackbird in a mixed flock of Red-wings and grackles.  Savannah Sparrows are 
still present-we saw 4, but Tree Sparrows have all left.

Larry Cartwright
prowarbler@xxxxxxxxx


  
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