VA Birders,
Yesterday (17 May), I did a little birding in the northern VA Piedmont. In
Prince William County, I had a Common Loon at Lake Manassas, then at one of our
wetland mitigation sites near Nokesville I had a late American Pipit, at least
3 Virginia Rails and 4 Soras, 2 Dunlin, 1 Lesser Yellowlegs, 2 Spotted and 15
Solitary Sandpipers, and several hundred swallows, including 120+ Bank
Swallows. A nearby site, on the PW/Fauquier County line, had 3 Least and 15
Solitary Sandpipers and a Common Raven. Another wetland mitigation site near
Catlett had a lingering female Hooded Merganser, single Black-bellied and
Semipalmated plovers, 23 Dunlin, 12 Solitary and 6 Spotted Sandpipers, 2
Savannah Sparrows, 3 Cliff and 60 Bank Swallows, and 1 Virginia Rail.
A check of the Woodward Turf Farm near Remington produced 120 Bobolinks, single
singing Savannah Sparrow and Horned Lark, and a female Northern Harrier along
Rt. 654 (Normans Ford Road), all on the Fauquier County side of the farm;
another Savannah Sparrow was singing along Grassdale Road nearby. On the
Culpeper County side of the farm, the nesting Bald Eagles had at least 1 large
young in the nest.
I checked the field north of Culpeper where I had a singing male Dickcissel
last weekend; the field had been mown, and the bird was not to be found.
Steve Rottenborn
Culpeper County, VA
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