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[pbedell@xxxxxxxxxxx]

While staying in Blacksburg this weekend, I made a quick visit on Saturday 
afternoon to the local Heritage Park, an abandoned farm.  I heard one Sedge 
Wren singing from a grassland area uphill from a small wetland.  I spent the 
better part of an hour looking for a nest, and I know what to look for, having 
researched these critters in the Great Plains and having found many nests while 
doing so.  I did not find anything, and the bird seemed only weakly 
territorial.  While searching I also flushed a Virginia Rail, and found two Am. 
Goldfinch nests in bushes; one with 5 eggs and the other with 4 eggs and 2 
hatchlings.
Paul Bedell

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> Folks, 
> 
> Yesterday (Aug. 7) at 11:15am, I heard the 2 singing sedge wrens at the 
> Glebe Rd. location in Augusta Co. They were in a overgrown field about 75 
> yards across the road from the red gates where they had been seen 
> previously. I saw one as it was perched on a grass stalk. Beyond the wrens I 
> heard a shrike singing, but couldn't locate the bird. No herons or egrets 
> were seen at the heronry. 
> While going back on Mish Barn rd. where you cross the stream, I heard a blue 
> grosbeak singing and saw a wood duck at the bridge. 
> 
> Mike Smith 
> Elkton, Va. 
> 
> 
> 
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