The juvenile Red-necked Phalarope found by Kurt Gaskill yesterday on the
mats of submerged vegetation off the Belle Haven Picnic Grounds was
present this morning---although the first twirling bird I spotted after
arriving was a Lesser Yellowlegs.
VA: Alexandria: Belle Haven Picnic Grounds
29 Aug 2007: 0710 to 0745 EDT
scanning Potomac River and mats of vegetation off N parking lot, and
Hunting Creek Cove from picnic grounds shore;
23 C; SE 5 km/hr; overcast; high tide c. 0920;
extensive mats of vegetation in cove and off Picnic Grounds, patchily
distributed well out toward main channel;
Canada Goose 20
Mallard 18
Pied-Billed Grebe 3
Great Blue Heron 7
Great Egret 2
Osprey 6
Killdeer 1
Greater Yellowlegs 3
Lesser Yellowlegs 13
Semipalmated Sandpiper 3
Red-Necked Phalarope 1, juv
Laughing Gull 7
Ring-Billed Gull c 10
....
Sherman Suter
Alexandria VA 22307
ssuter aaas org
