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[Breep@xxxxxxx]

Bart Hutchinson and I participated in the Northern Virginia Waterfowl Survey 
this morning, mostly from Hunting Creek to just south of Dyke Marsh.  In 
addition to Canadas and mallards, we saw:
5 PB grebe
2 DC corm.
2 wood duck
36 black duck
1 bufflehead
2 hooded merg
3 red-breasted merg
1 Anas sp. decoy (old, probably black duck)

6 black-crowned night heron (under the Alexandria powerplant)
1 possible tundra swan, flying downstream from power plant, just a glipse in 
a snow squall)

Other birds of note:

10 pipits (8 in the cove south of Tulane St., 2 on the marina road at Dyke)
2 rusty? blackbirds (they appeared to be in full breeding plumage, so it was 
hard to be sure that they weren't Brewer's)
1 peregrine (on driftwood in River near Hunting Creek)
1 harrier (Dyke)

Ben Jesup
Alexandria


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