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["Larry Cartwright" <prowarbler@xxxxxxxxx>]

One only person joined me for a miserable, rainy walk at Mason Neck National 
Wildlife Refuge and State Park.  The trail leading from Gunston Road to the 
Great Marsh yielded a dozen Yellow-rumps, a singing Chipping Sparrow and 
singing Pine Warbler (nice contrast comparing the songs), and a Great Crested 
Flycatcher in the parking lot and the trail itself yielded one Magnolia and one 
Hooded Warbler (heard not seen).  Anchorage Road (restricted access) yielded a 
Scarlet Tanager while a singing Chipper and a nesting Yellow-throated Warbler 
were observed in the open meadow at the end of Anchorage.  After the wind 
picked up, we couldn't find a thing, not even a Prothonotary in the marsh to 
the left of the Visitor's Center at the State Park.
Mason Neck is in Fairfax County.
Larry Cartwright
prowarbler@xxxxxxxxx

  
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