[va-bird] Raining Dowitchers at Cameron Run, Alexandria

[Edna Aaron <eeaaron@xxxxxxxx>]

Today I decided to take Paula Sullivan's suggestioin of checking Cameron
Run at the intersection of Bluestone and Eisenhauer Ave. for dowitchers.

  Upon arriving at about 11:30 a.m. in a light drizzle, I got the warm-up
acts of 
several spotted sandpipers and (greater?) yellowlegs and one great egret,
but no dowitchers.  So,  I strolled down the bikepath and it began to
rain harder and suddenly there were the headliners -- THREE long-billed
dowitchers in their lovely russet plummage.
 Then, when I walked back to the first
group of shorebirds, there were two more!  I wonder if the hard rain had
brought them down.  Anyway, it was great observing them rather up close
and personal. -- No scope necessary.

                                                                Edna
Aaron, Alexandria
 
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