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["Janice E Ramser" <janice.ramser@xxxxxxx>]

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From: Rob Hilton <aimophila10@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sunday, October 06, 2002 4:04 PM
Subject: [va-bird] Winkler Botanical Preserve, Alexandria, Oct. 5


>
>On October 5 we paid a visit to the Winkler Botanical Preserve in
Alexandria
>city.  At the wildflower meadow near the entrance we saw a Blue-headed
>Vireo, Palm Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, Indigo Bunting, and maybe a
>Wilson's Warbler.  Three Caspian Terns passed over the preserve together,
>and a Belted Kingfisher stopped at the pond.  Judging from the wonderful
day
>at Rock Creek Park DC (12 species or warbler this morning) I bet today
could
>have been something.
>
>An employee I talked to said an Eastern Bluebird was hanging around in the
>winter or spring.  The wildflower meadow has nothing but native plants, and
>I noted a total lack of Poison Ivy on the woods trails I was on.  The place
>is on Roanoke Avenue in the western part of the city and is off N.
>Beauregard St. 5 lefts south/west of Seminary Road, not too far from I 395
>(and not too far from Clydes and a Starbucks and Ramsey Elementary School).
>ADC Metro Washington map 20 G-1 (2001 edition).
>
>Best,
>
>Rob Hilton
>aimophila10@xxxxxxxxxxx
>Silver Spring, Md.
>
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