FreeLists / va-bird / [va-bird] Lubber Run Park, Arlington, July 1--Almost Washed Away!

[VBKitchens@xxxxxxx]

VA Birders,

    On Saturday morning, July 1, I decided to take a short walk at Lubber Run 
Park, Arlington Co., to get a little exercise and to look for an Eastern 
Wood-Pewee, since I had not seen one in the county yet this year.  I parked at 
the 
Ampitheater, and walked west toward Route 50.  Soon after passing the 
restrooms, I discovered that the park had suffered serious damage from the 
rains a 
week or so earlier.  The bridge across Lubber Run (stream) was gone; the metal 
supports were in the stream, but the rest of the bridge had disappeared.  Then 
I realized that virtually all of the vegetation, except for a few large trees, 
had been washed away on both sides of the stream all the way to Rt. 50.  Only 
a layer of silt was left, extending to the hillsides on both sides of the 
stream!  Amazingly, however, on my way back, I heard and then saw an EASTERN 
WOOD-PEWEE near where the bridge used to be.  

Good birding,
Val Kitchens
Arlington, VA   
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