Maybe they are on their way north this morning.
Between the parking lot and the school building
this morning, a 3 minute walk, I saw 12 loons
flying N over Flint Hill in Oakton, Fairfax
County.
Fred
--- Clyde Kessler <ckessler@xxxxxx> wrote:
Good Morning,
I had business yesterday in Martinsville so
after I finished that around 2
pm, I decided to check some of the ponds and
lakes in the area. What a
major surprise for me: I have been birding the
area of Franklin, Henry and
Patrick County for more than 30 years, and
keeping careful records for
29...my previous peak count for Common Loon in
those three counties was
15. That peak was crushed.
At Martinsville Reservior (Beaver Creek
Reservoir):
95 Common Loons
18 Double-crested Cormorants
08 Canada Geese
01 Spotted Sandpiper
01 Bald Eagle (nearly adult, it caught a fish
after diving into the
swimming huddle of cormorants, cormorants
freaked of course, and it flew to
a pine and ate the fish)
01 Osprey
After the dazzle of seeing so many loons there,
I decided to check Philpott
Lake.
At Goose Point (border of Patrick & Henry
Counties)
208 Common Loons (all but four were in Henry
County "waters" of the lake)
001 Bonaparte's Gull
002 Ospreys
Then I checked Fairystone Lake
No loons
001 DC Cormorant
002 Canada Geese
006 Wood Duck
002 Blue-winged Teal
006 Mallard
001 Ring-necked Duck
001 Osprey
Cheers,
Clyde Kessler
Radford, VA
ckessler@xxxxxx
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