At my weekend place in Cedar Creek Valley, Shenandoah County, yesterday I had
a female Black-and-White Warbler and a family (3 or 4) of Worm-eating
Warblers on my property. Neither of these species nests there, but they do nest
higher up in the George Washington NF, and often appear in the valley bottom
after
they breed and before they migrate. (I term this "staging" but am not sure
that's an accepted ornithological term.) At any rate, it's exciting and a
foretaste of things to come as fall migration picks up. Most of our local
breeders
still have nests or young just out.
Dave Davis
Arlington
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