Dorothy and all,
This area of the battlefield you visited, formerly referred to by
birders as the "defunct shopping center" and known to the NPS folks
out there as Brownsville, is a great place to see and photograph
Grasshopper Sparrows. Glad they gave you some good looks. For those
interested in the grassland habitat there and some digiscoped photos
of these wonderful, little birds, check out the link to "Grasshopper
Sparrows @ MNBP" on the Welcome page of Paul Kane's BIRDING NORTHERN
VIRGINIA web site. http://homepage.mac.com/pmkane/ To learn a little
about how the restoration of this area came about, you can also visit
http://homepage.mac.com/pmkane/weblog/ I have a few photos of my own
on my site as well. http://www.pbase.com/paulasullivan/
manassas_national_battlefield_park
Paula Sullivan
Alexandria
On Jul 11, 2006, at 2:59 PM, Dorothy M. Tella wrote:
Hello VA-Birders:
Yesterday in the midafternoon I spent about 45 minutes in the parking lot at the Groveton Road entrance to the Stuart's Hill restoration area in the southwest section of Manassas National Battlefield Park. I had hoped to see GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS and was delighted when two of them, braving the blazing sun and heat , flew up from the grass on the north side of the parking lot and perched for several minutes on tall weeds ......
