Greetings...
A Rough-winged swallow was about the most notable bird seen yesterday
afternoon from the George Washington Parkway bridge crossing Hunting Creek.
The good Irish lads George MacArmistead and Ned McBrinkley and myself spent
about a half hour there in steady rain at low tide (circa three PM). A dozen
Bonaparte's Gulls were working the southern end of the mudflats in the bay; a
flock of about fifteen snipe flew east overhead and landed on a flat.
Perhaps a couple dozen Green-winged Teal were working the flats; a mixed
flock of Common and Red-breasted Mergansers not totaling much more than a
dozen were just beyond the flats. A handful of killdeer were upstream in the
flats in Hunting Creek. About ten Great Blue Herons were on the mud in the
bay, but no other herons, nor any Bald Eagles.
Gull numbers were about a fifth of what they had been a few weeks ago when
the California Gull was being seen. Except for the gulls furthest across the
mudflats which were hard to see through the rain and dull lighting, all were
the expected Herring, Great Black-backed and Ring-billeds.
Tree Swallows and Osprey were seen out over the river, skirting the
Maryland/Virginia border.
Cheers...
Todd
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Toddy O' Day
Jeffersonton, VA
County Culpeper
Blkvulture@xxxxxxx
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