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["jay hadlock" <jaybirdncarol@xxxxxxx>]

Greetings Birders,
We had a very interesting visit to Sunrise Valley Park in Reston, VA this 
morning.

The highlight was seeing five Green herons. We could not tell if some of these 
were a family unit. Also, the five member Killdeer family is still there and so 
is the Willow Flycatcher. The hot weather is shrinking the pond, and that has 
left some good mud flats for the Killdeer.

A Kingfisher, young Barnswallows being fed by their parents, a family of Tree 
swallows, Eastern Kingbird, Phoebes, and a female Hairy Woodpecker were other 
highlights of the morning.  

A very emaciated Red Fox looks like it could soon be a casualty of the 
reduction of the overall habitat caused by the building of two office buildings 
and their parking garages. (The office buildings will probably sit empty as 
casualties of the commercial slump in the Dulles/Herndon/Reston corridor.)

Jay and Carol Hadlock
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