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[va-bird] Final Verdict on Hunting Creek Warbler: It's a Wilson's!

From: UberLarry@xxxxxxx
To: va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 18:12:40 EST

VA Birders,
 
Today, our CBC team (consisting of four birders) relocated  the warbler I saw 
on Wednesday on the Alexandria side of Hunting  Creek.  Hunting Creek is off 
the GW Parkway by the Stone Bridge on the  Fairfax County-Alexandria border. 
Everyone got good looks at the bird and  it was determined without question 
that it is a Wilson's Warbler (Not an  Orange-crowned or Yellow).  The bird was 
near where I briefly saw it  before, but this time it was in the bushes right 
next to the parking  lot. Other birds of interest on our CBC route included a 
Lesser  Black-backed Gull in the Potomac at the Stone Bridge, two Peregrine 
Falcons on  the Wilson Bridge, and three Black-crowned Night-Herons at the 
Alexandria  Power Plant.  We had a total of 63 species.
 
Larry Meade
Vienna, VA