Don Stein and I visited Belle Haven/Hunting Creek Monday 10-14, looking for the
White Pelicans. Alas, they were not in residence between 7:45 and 9:00 AM.
But other interesting birds were. Highlight was an immature Peregrine Falcon,
spotted on the west side of GW Parkway at the Stone Bridge, as it dived on the
several hundred gulls and terns on the mudflats, sending them scattering. It
then perched on a bare limb for more than one-half hour, giving good looks in
the bright sunshine.
Other notables include:
1 Bald Eagle (immature), on a stump in the Potomac.
About 200 Shovelers
About 200 Ruddy Ducks
1 lonely Lesser Scaulp
3 Pie-Billed Grebe
Pintail Duck
Green-wing Teal
Blue-wing Teal
4 Caspian Tern
25 Forster's Tern (winter plumage)
75 Laughing Gull (winter plumage)
4-5 Lesser Yellowlegs
2 Killdeer
3 Dowitcher (sp)
Plus the usual assortment of Great Blue Herons, Great Egrets, Canadas, Mallards
and the like.
Weather: Clear, 50-degrees, wind N to NE, 15mph. Tide: low.
Kurt Henschen
Alexandria, VA
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