This morning I checked out Franklin Park, a Loudoun County Regional Park,
immediately to the west of Purcellville on business. Rt. 7. This use to be a
nice place for birding before they built a lot of ballfields and started mowing
the meadows into lawn. However, recently they have begun leaving some areas,
esp. on the southern edge, natural so there are nice hedgerows and high grass
now.
A walk through the high grass this morning found a Least Flycatcher in the
hedgerow, a male and female Blue Grosbeak feeding on the edge of the high
grass, as well as a Savannah Sparrow and a couple of Grasshopper Sparrows.
This area holds a lot of promise if they do not mow the meadows in the southern
area too often.
Closer to home, on Ebenezer Church Rd, there were about 30 very vocal
Bobolinks, of which two were females.
Joe Coleman
near Bluemont, VA
540-554-2542 or jandkcoleman@xxxxxxxxx
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