VA: Alexandria/Fairfax Co: mouth of Hunting Creek
Sunday, 24 Sep 2006
1800 to 1915 EDT: scoping W flats from base of sound wall at W end of
apartments, from Stone (GW Parkway) Bridge; E flats from along the bike
path for 200 m to south; then E and W flats from the bridge; and W flats
from base of sound wall;
23 to 22 C; moderately heavy overcast with a couple of rain drops;
briefly clearing enough to the west to cast a spot of sunhine on the MD
shore and create a strong partial rainbow; NNW 22 to 10 km/hr; low tide
1610; extensive flats to E when I arrived; higher bars and flats still
exposed at 1915; sunset circa 1902;
# East of GW Parkway / # W of Parkway;
Canada Goose 30 / 4
Wood Duck - / 4
American Wigeon 1 / -
American Black Duck 3 / 2
Mallard 40 / 8
Double-crested Cormorant 1 / 1
Great Blue Heron 4 / 1
Great Egret 27 / 2
Osprey 1 / 1
Greater Yellowlegs 1 / -
Laughing Gull 3200 / 260
Ring-Billed Gull 2100 / 125
Herring Gull 6 / -
Great Black-Backed Gull 11 / -
Caspian Tern 87 / 2
Forster's Tern 138 / 1
Mourning Dove 18 / 4
Chimney Swift 9 / -
Belted Kingfisher - / 1 (m)
0 shorebirds on the West flats;
Sherman Suter
Alexandria VA 22307
ssuter aaas org
Sherman Suter, Ph.D.
Book Reviews Editor
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1200 New York Ave. NW
Washington DC 20005
(202) 326-6523 / fax: (202) 789-5316
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