[va-bird] Red-Throated Loon , Orange Crowned Warbler , Loudoun County

Hi VA birders ,
 
    The cold snap is concentrating waterfowl on Beaverdam  Reservoir which is 
still around two thirds ice free. Highlight this  afternoon was an adult 
Red-throated Loon which is an unusual sighting in the  Piedmont in winter , 
perhaps a refugee from the Great Lakes freeze up. Other  waterfowl noted 
included Am 
Widgeon , Ring necked Duck ( 6 ) , Bufflehead ,  Hooded Merganser ( 12 ) , 
Common Merganser ( 25 ) , Pied-billed Grebe (2 ) ,  Mallard ( 50 + ) and Canada 
Goose ( 150 + ).
 
  At Riverside Park , Loudoun County I relocated the Orange-crowned  Warbler 
first seen here in December by Andy Rabin on the Seneca CBC. Plumage  
indicates that it is probably a first year female. The warbler is  associating 
itself 
with a flock of White-throated Sparrows along the river bank  keeping very low 
to the ground concealed in dead vegetation. As the bird did not  make any 
type of call or respond to pishing this is not an easy bird  to find .
 
John Drummond
Ashburn
Loudoun County    

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