It is fascinating to hear this long-term
perspective! Thanks!
More recently, in the early 1990s (I can't
remember the exact year) I found one singing in
breeding season in the Random Hills area of
Fairfax near route 66, a long ways from the
river. I never found a nest. By the next year
it was cleared for townhouses and office
buildings. This same area, between there and the
Fairfax County Gov Center I also had broad-winged
hawk, veery, kentucky warbler, hooded warbler,
and lots of scarlet tanagers in breeding season.
Not any more. Just a few specks of forest are
left.
--- Bazuin.John@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
All,http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/bba/index.cfm?fa=explore.ResultsBySpecies
I guess I'm the only long-term resident
of the area who's old
enough to remember this but sometime in the
1950s or 1960s Cerulean
Warblers began to be found as breeders along
the C&O Canal towpath (in
Maryland) in the Pennyfield/ Violette's lock
areas for the first time.
This population thrived and expanded (up, down,
and across the river) so
that by the mid-to-late 1970s they were being
found in along the Potomac
in Virginia from somewhere in Loudoun County
east to eastern Fairfax
County (two places I rememberas being
perticularly good for them were
Riverbend Park and (some years) what is now
Scott Run Natural Area, as
well as along a considerable stretch of the
Maryland side of the river.
I don't know what has happened to them since
the early 1980s but it was
remarkable that the breeding population got
started in the first place,
and then was so wildly successful. Only along
the river, though.
John
Bazuin
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05/09/2007 04:16 records
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VA birders:
Just across the Potomac, along the C&O Canal
towpath in Montgomery
County, MD, the recently completed MD-DC
Breeding Bird Atlas found
two confirmed and one probable breeding
instances for Cerulean Warbler.
Preliminary results of this Atlas (ran from
2002 through 2006) showed
Ceruleans in 99 (out of more than 1000) blocks
within safe dates.
I note that there were Ceruleans confirmed
breeding in the block
"Sterling CE," which is mostly in Virginia,
presumably Loudoun County
-- in fact in two different quarter blocks
there. Another "probable"
breeding Cerulean record came from the block
called Falls Church NE;
I don't know where this is exactly, but
presumably part of it is
somewhere in Fairfax County.
Anyone wanting to explore the preliminary Atlas
results should go to
the USGS North American BBA Explorer web site:
Interesting and lots of fun (especially if you
can figure out where
the blocks are located on the map!)
Mike Bowen
Montgomery Bird Club, MOS
At 02:00 PM 5/9/2007 -0400, Joe Coleman wrote:
Jay,was well-photographed.
The Monk Parakeet in an Alexandria backyard
breeders in Arlington,
And while Cerulean Warblers may not be local
they are
local breeders in my neck of the woods(western Loudoun Co) and G.
Thompson
(cited) & there are records of them breedingin Harford and Howard
Counties,
MD (both also cited). All of those are partof the area covered by the
BirdEast report.
Best, Joe Coleman
----- Original Message -----5/8/07
From: "Jay Keller" <azure.jay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 9:50 PM
Subject: [va-bird] Fw: [BIRDEAST] DC Area,
Monk Parakeet in an
Hello,
Does anyone know much about this reported
Alexandria
local breeders in Arlington,yard? Also, Cerulean Warblers ARE NOT
VA.
The
report alone is pretty wild.
Jay Keller.
Arlington
the Naturalist follows:
Relevant extract from this week's Voice of
Potomac Overlook RP,
Local breeders include CERULEAN WARBLERS at
Valley State Park in HowardArlington; the McKeldin Area/Patapsco
Co;
Richard Thompson WMA inSusquehanna SP, Harford Co, MD; and the G.
western Fauquier Co.
D.H. Michael Bowen
8609 Ewing Drive
Bethesda, MD 20817
e-mail: dhmbowenATyahooDOTcom
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