[va-bird] OBNWR King Rail/Prothonotarys/West Nile

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I biked around the wildlife dirve today to check for action at the warbler box 
where catamount creek crosses the wildlife dirve about 430pm.  On tuesday, on 
the weekly monitoring round, a lateish brood was found in this box.  The 4 tiny 
warbler young look to be about 2 days old.  I removed a small mub daubber nest 
from the inside of the box.  So today I was delighted to see the female going 
to the box with a long antenaed food bug.  I feared I might see wasps instead.  
The warblers usu. take 11 days to fledge so I'll see them at least once more 
before they go.
The other two boxes with prothonotarys were empty having fledged 4 each.

Also in the same area I saw a King Rail cross the road.  I then heard what I 
thought was the king rail untill it flew up in a sycamore and reveiled itself 
to be a Green Heron doing a decent King Rail kak call.  Humm...

I wanted to mention that some prince william county officals have been testing 
for west nile on and around the refuge.  Some areas around the golf course 
tested positive and the area inbetween the industrial center and veteran's park 
(back were the Pontiac Fiero carcass is) also tested positive. 
They said water in new hay filled storm water pods around the centext devopment 
were very favorable mosquito habitat.  The hay consumed oxygene or something.
I don't know what the results were on the refuge.

Kevin Parker
Dale City

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