Birders,
Circumstances conspired to abbreviate last week's bird walk at Mason Neck
State Park, but a few migrants were spotted nonetheless. A PALM WARBLER was
still loitering near the Visitor Center. An AMERICAN REDSTART was flitting
around a maple by the main boardwalk on the Bay View Trail. CHIMNEY SWIFTS
passed overhead as well. A full list follows.
Don't miss this Saturday's special early trip to an area of the park that's
normally closed to the public. Kurt Gaskill and I will lead birders on a
search for migrants early in the morning; we will meet in the National
Wildlife Refuge's Wood Marsh Trail parking lot on High Point Road before
7:00am. At 7:00 we will carpool to the state park's fields, known to be
migrant hotspots. If you can't make the early start, I will still return to
the MNSP Visitor Center to lead the usual bird walk starting at 9:00am.
The special early trip is cancelled in the case of rain; the regular 9:00am
walk is rain or shine. See my additional post for further details.
Species list for bird walk of 9/23:
Great Blue Heron
Canada Goose
Duck sp. (on the bay-- possibly early Scaup??)
Red-tailed Hawk
Mourning Dove
Chimney Swift
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Eastern Wood-Pewee
American Crow
White-breasted Nuthatch
European Starling
Palm Warbler
American Redstart
American Goldfinch
Good birding,
Jodi Bucknam
Park Interpreter
Mason Neck State Park
7301 High Point Rd.
Lorton, VA 22079
703-339-2380
mninterpreter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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