Hi birders,
I took a long ramble through the back fields and thickets and back roads of my
neighborhood on this idyllic morning, narrowly beating the downpour with hail
that sprang up. New arrivals to the area are Yellow-Billed Cuckoo, E.
Wood-Pewee, and Acadian Flycatcher. Other highlights were a flight of eight
Wood Ducks (struck me as a lot where there's no lake nearby), Yellow-Throated
Vireo, 2 Magnolia Warblers, and four!! male Baltimore Orioles chasing each
other. That was an amazing sight!
Two days ago, Tuesday morning, at the Dulles Wetlands south of Leesburg, saw 5
Snipe and enjoyed a long view of a Bonaparte's Gull gracefully swirling and
hovering as it fished. Nearby, on The Woods Road near Banshee Reeks, I
experienced the biggest fallout of warblers I've ever seen--hundreds--and every
one I looked at was a Yellow-Rumped! I could hear Parula, Black-Throated Blue
and Green, and Blackpoll as well.
Wishing this crazy weather pattern would soon break,
Mary Ann Good
Lincoln, near Purcellville VA
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