FreeLists / va-bird / [va-bird] Vesper Sparrow/Dyke Marsh/April4

[Zelig88@xxxxxxx]

This morning at Dyke Marsh, Alexandria,  around 8:15am, there was a VESPER 
SPARROW foraging on the ground in the south picnic area. The bird was close to 
the water and would occaisionally hop onto the rocks...I watched the bird for 
10 minutes in the bright sun as it scatched and scraped...didn' t seem too 
intent on leaving as it would only fly a few feet away if I approached too 
closely...
Some other nice birds along the trail included my first BG GNATS ( at least 
3) -one BROWN THRASHER, and in the small gut  2 RING-NECKED DUCK (m&f) and one 
PB GREBE - one TV drifted overhead, followed by one BLACK VULTURE...

Work to clean up the boardwalk has turned much of the trail to muck...wear 
boots...good news is that the crew seems to have removed ALL of the boardwalk 
pieces from the peninsula, except for one large piece of a platform...hope they 
grade the trail when they're done!

Rich Rieger


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