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[va-bird] Turkey at Riverbend Park, Fairfax County
- From: Michael Bowen <dhmbowen@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 15:57:30 -0400
VA Birders:
I visited Great Falls Park and Riverbend Park in Fairfax County
yesterday morning, May 1. The weather was glorious but the birding quite slow.
The highlight at Great Falls was hearing and seeing 3 WORM-EATING
WARBLERS in the section of the River Trail that abuts the steep, dry
hillside about a mile south of the park HQ. Probable breeders?
At Riverbend, the most exciting moment was seeing a WILD TURKEY
scuttle across the middle of the Meadow area. This species is marked
as "rare" on the Great Falls Park checklist, but I don't know its
status at Riverbend. The Meadow also had several INDIGO BUNTINGS and
the woods had quite a few OVENBIRD.
Perhaps Turkeys are getting more common in the Greater Washington
area. The Riverbend gobbler was the fourth I've seen round here in
the past month -- one at Banshee Reeks in Loudoun County, and two
over in Montgomery County, Maryland (one of those within a half-mile
of the Beltway Bridge over the Potomac).
Mike Bowen
Bethesda, MD
D. H. Michael Bowen (Mike)
8609 Ewing Drive
Bethesda MD 20817-3845
Tel/Fax: (301) 530-5764
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