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[Geomom59@xxxxxx]

Hello-- 
Spent about an hour this morning at Sunrise Valley Park. This was a great 
opportunity to watch lots of bird families being fed by the parents.  Ran into 
Jay and Carol Hadlock there and we enjoyed watching a Great Crested Flycatcher 
fly back and forth from the trees to the office buildings carrying food.  It 
was quite methodical--flying up three stories onto a ledge, calling, resting, 
then flying up to the roof, looking around, and then hopping over the edge to 
where I guess the nest was.  I watched it do this over and over. Once or twice 
it got "confused" and hovered in front of the window of the adjacent building.  
Jay spotted a group of three brown thrashers in one of the trees.  There were 
also plenty of tree swallows, a towhee family, an eastern kingbird, and one 
killdeer flying around. 

Enjoy the birds! 

Liz Koozmin
Reston, VA


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