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["Christian Kessler" <northraven@xxxxxxx>]

wrote this while talking on the phone, omitted the white-throated sparrows 
sporting their brilliant new yellow lores.  they were really sharp looking, 
all ready for spring.  jck

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christian Kessler" <northraven@xxxxxxx>
To: <va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 9:52 PM
Subject: [va-bird] more woodies than mallards


> played hookie today & went to Mason Neck, Julie Metz, & Leesylvania [for a 
> bit].  saw some 14 Wood Duck at Mason Neck, mostly in pairs, and then 
> another 4 [at least -- saw more, but it was hard to be sure some weren't 
> ducks that had bolted from a different pond earlier] at Julie Metz. 
> "only" got about 8 Mallards.
> entering Julie Metz, first saw a Pileated fly over, then saw a Fox Sparrow 
> in the underbrush just across the trail, then saw a second Pileated fly 
> after the first.  nice way to start.
>
> whole list:
>
> double-crested cormorant     Mason
> canada                                everywhere
> wood  duck                          Mason & Metz
> mallard                                Mason & Metz
> lesser scaup                        Mason
> bufflehead                            Mason
> red-breasted merg                Leesylvania
> great blue heron                    all
> osprey                                Leesylvania
> bald eagle (all adults)           Mason & circling over Metz
> greater yellowlegs                Mason
> ring-billed gull                      Mason
> forster's tern                        Mason
> mourning dove                    Mason
> yellow-billed cuckoo (heard)    Mason
> red-bellied woodpecker        all
> downy                                Leesylvania
> northern flicker                    Mason & Metz
> pileated                              Metz
> blue jay                              all
> american crow                    all
> fish crow                            all
> eastern bluebird                  Mason
> american lawn thrush          all
> european starling                Mason
> carolina wren                      all
> blue-grey gnatcatcher          Metz
> tree swallow                        Mason & Metz
> carolina chickadee               all
> tufted titmouse                    all
> american goldfinch               Mason & Metz
> fox sparrow                          Metz
> song sparrow                       Metz & Leesylvania
> savannah sparrow                 Metz
> chipping sparrow                   Metz
> field sparrow                         Metz
> northern cardinal                   all
> red-winged blackbird             Mason & Metz
> common grackle                   all
>
> chris kessler
> falls church
>
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