[va-bird] A Few Good Birds Thursday and Friday

VA Birders,

    Pat Blyer, Betty Kilgore, and I went to Occoquan Bay NWR, Prince William 
Co., Thursday morning, April 28.  Our best birds were at least 3 PROTHONOTARY 
WARBLERS, including a pair flying back and forth across Easy Road near a nest 
box.  We also saw our first YELLOW WARBLERS of the year there too.  COMMON 
YELLOWTHROATS were everywhere, but it took a while before we finally saw some.  
BALD EAGLES & OSPREYS were common too.  NOTE:  When you go to this refuge, you 
can pick up a brochure at the entrance, and it has a map with the road names 
for all the trails, and it's not hard to figure them out even tho there aren't 
any signs with the street names on them (at least none that I have seen).

    On Friday morning, April 29, I went to Fort C.F. Smith Park here in 
Arlington, where I was first joined by John Belz, who helped me clip the grass 
and 
weeds that were making it difficult to see birds coming to drink and bathe in 
our Bird Stream.  After we finished, we heard and then saw our first YELLOW 
WARBLER in the park this year.  After John left, the Yellow Warbler came and 
bathed in the Bird Stream.  A little later, when Park Manager Scott Deibler 
joined we, we saw our first GREAT CRESTED FLYCATCHER of the year, which was 
doing 
only a partial song, in the big oak tree next to the benches there.

Good birding,
Val Kitchens
Arlington, VA
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