[va-bird] Leesylvania State Park migrants, 8/26

I spent a few hours at Leesylvania State Park this morning.  It seemed quiet, 
but there were birds about, silently going about their business.  As the sun 
touched the top of the trees I was on the hillside below the ruins.  After a 
while a mostly silent wave of birds came down the hill.  I saw 5 or 6 black and 
white warblers, single blue-winged and magnolia warblers, and multiple red-eyed 
vireos, ruby-throated hummers, yellow-billed cuckoos, Traill-type flycatchers, 
scarlet tanagers, baltimore orioles, and eastern wood pewees.  Pewees were 
particularly common throughout the park.  Elsewhere in the park I tallied 2 
more blue-winged and 3more black and whites, 3 yellow warblers, and single 
magnolia, prothonotary, hooded, and parula warblers.  A yellow-bellied 
flycatchers was on the hillside behind the beaver dam.  In a small tree along 
the road were 4 baltimore orioles and a scarlet tanager.  Some of the other 
birds I saw included cedar waxwing, chimney swift (many overhead), Forster's 
tern, great-crested flycatcher, blue-gray gnatcatcher, indigo bunting (mom and 
3 fledglings), rought-winged swallow, eastern bluebird, hairy woodpecker, 
red-shouldered hawk, and bald eagle.

Marc Ribaudo
Woodbridge, VA

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