While staying in Blacksburg this weekend, I made a quick visit on Saturday
afternoon to the local Heritage Park, an abandoned farm. I heard one Sedge
Wren singing from a grassland area uphill from a small wetland. I spent the
better part of an hour looking for a nest, and I know what to look for, having
researched these critters in the Great Plains and having found many nests while
doing so. I did not find anything, and the bird seemed only weakly
territorial. While searching I also flushed a Virginia Rail, and found two Am.
Goldfinch nests in bushes; one with 5 eggs and the other with 4 eggs and 2
hatchlings.
Paul Bedell
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Folks,
Yesterday (Aug. 7) at 11:15am, I heard the 2 singing sedge wrens at the
Glebe Rd. location in Augusta Co. They were in a overgrown field about 75
yards across the road from the red gates where they had been seen
previously. I saw one as it was perched on a grass stalk. Beyond the wrens I
heard a shrike singing, but couldn't locate the bird. No herons or egrets
were seen at the heronry.
While going back on Mish Barn rd. where you cross the stream, I heard a blue
grosbeak singing and saw a wood duck at the bridge.
Mike Smith
Elkton, Va.
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