[bcbirdclub] VSO Weekend and Bobolinks
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- Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 4:20:03 -0500
Hello Folks,
Just returned from the Virginia Society of Ornithology annual meeting at
Stratford Hall on the Northen Neck of Virginia, the boyhood home of Robert E.
Lee. It was fun watching what could have possibly been the decendants of
meadowlarks that he would have observed as a boy in the hay meadows and walking
some of the woodland trails. The speaker was Bryon Watts head of the center of
conservation biology at William and Mary who gave a fantastic program on the
recovery of bird species in Virginia and the conservation eras that Virginia
has gone through and is going through ie DDT, Logging Industry, and urban
expansion it was a very eye opening program in a positive way, and talked about
some of the expansion of species in Virginia that had previously been declining
like the American Bald Eagle, Osprey and the Great Blue Heron. The highlight
for myself was sitting on the banks of the Rappahannack and watching the
American Bald Eagles soaring and fishing and calling from their perches.
Overall it was an excellent weekend and I saw well over a hundred species of
birds with the following raptor counts.
American Bald Eagle 47 in each age plummage Wow!
Osprey 24
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 2
American Kestrel 1
One other note it seems like a population of Bobolinks has moved into the big
pasture field at Elk Garden right across from the intersection of Rt 656 and
657.
--
Bob(Be Birding) Riggs
Lebanon, Va.
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