[va-bird] Re: Tysons Area Green Herons

on 6/24/04 9:11 AM, Ellen O'Donohue at kelpgull@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

There must be a good food source there or very nearby.

Barbara Chambers
Annandale/Fairfax

>> All,
> 
> I am grateful to see Jeff's posting as this morning there were two green
> herons flying over the urban drainage pond we like to call the Bird Refuge at
> Nutley and Rte 66 as I walked to the train.
> 
> There have been influxes of new birds here, such as chimney swifts, and barn
> swallows, and the heron population has been more stable with great blue in
> evidence almost daily, and a pair of black crowned night herons stopping by
> from time to time.
> 
> Not an exotic location as those being visited outside the Beltway, but a good
> increase in variety.
> 
> Ellen O'Donohue
> Vienna VA
> 
>> From: Jeff Clark <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: 2004/06/23 Wed AM 01:56:56 GMT
>> To: va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [va-bird] Tysons Area Green Herons
>> 
>> I realize that Green Herons are not the rarest of birds, however I have
>> found my recent sightings  interesting enough  to report to this list.
>> 
>> I started a new <A TITLE="Click for more information about job"
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>> in the Tysons Corner area of McLean recently. Over
>> the past week or so I have seen upwards of 6 individual Green Herons, at
>> a  time,  hanging about in the parking lot of my office building (7925
>> Jones Branch Rd). Their favorite site appears to be any <A TITLE="Click for
>> more information about car" STYLE="text-decoration: none; border-bottom:
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>> that is left 
>> overnight in the lot as this is where I have seen most of them. From my
>> office window on the 6th floor I continue to see them all day as well as
>> a great variety of other birds. Last Friday I had 18 species fly by my
>> window in the fleeting moments I had to look out the window, including a
>> beautiful Cedar Waxwing that landed on the window sill! Who would have
>> thought that Tysons Corner could support such wonderful birds!
>> 
>> Good Birding,
>> 
>> ----------------------------------------
>> Jeff Clark
>> jeff [at] nothoo [dot] com
>> Fairfax City, VA
>> 
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