[va-bird] Manasas & Leesburg

Today, Thursday 26 Feb, Carolyn Williams and I saw in Manassas a lone 
displaying HoodedMerganser at Comfort Inn and the Red- Necked Grebe swimming on 
 
Logan'sLake along with an American Coot, a Bufflehead and 5 Hooded 
Mergansers.RIng-billed gulls were fighting it out with Mallards over seed on 
thebank .We also 
saw one gull  holding onto the tips of another gull'stertial feathers  and 
dragging it out of the way in it's fight to getat the food.
We carried on to Leesburg , out to Montresor Road to wait for the ShortEared 
Owls. While waiting we saw several skeins of geese in thedistance following 
the course of the Potomac River, probably 200 in all. Also hunting the fields 
there were a Harrier and several Red-TailedHawks.  Red-Winged Blackbirds were 
in 
full song  and Mallards could beheard on the pond . Around 6.15 pm we heard 
at least 2  Short-EaredOwls calling across the field opposite the entrance to 
the farm. In thedusk we saw them gliding over the field  before it became too 
dark tosee them properly and they seemed to stop calling to each other. Thisis 
the first time we had heard the 'barking ' call . Well worth thecold wait
Sylvia


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