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[Susan Heath <sheath@xxxxxxx>]

All,

I birded my way out to Frederick County this morning and then spent a 
couple hours birding that area with BJ Little.  On the way out, I drove 
down Leeds Manor Road from I-66 to Rt. 17 and still found no Louisiana 
Waterthrushes.  Bummer.  At the Rt. 50 bridge over the Shenandoah I 
stopped to watch some swallows.  Most appeared to be TREE SWALLOWS but I 
noticed a few that were dark underneath.  Before I could figure out what 
they were, one of them dove into one of the CLIFF SWALLOW burrows under 
the bridge.  I couldn't get a good enough look in the rain to determine 
that it was definitely a Cliff Swallow but it wasn't a Barn or a Tree.  
A quick drive through Blandy yielded many TREE SWALLOWS on Lake Arnold 
but not much else.  It was pouring by then and I figured I was wasting 
my morning but by the time I got to BJs it had cleared up.  We viewed a 
nesting GREAT HORNED OWL on Woodside Place and then found 30 WILSON'S 
SNIPE and a single PECTORAL SANDPIPER on Kline's Mill Road.  Time to 
head home after that and endure, I mean enjoy my daughter's 18th 
birthday party.  Might as well owl tonight since I won't be getting any 
sleep!

Sue

-- 
Susan A. Heath
George Mason University
Environmental Science Department
Fairfax, VA

Secretary, Virginia Avian Records Committee
Keeper, Virginia Comp List at www.virginiabirding.org

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