Greetings...
Ian Topolsky and I got out for a little while on Saturday, looking to catch
some passerine migrants and to check on a couple things. First stop was the
New York Monuments area at Manassas Battlefield. It was rainy, overcast,
humid, and warm. But what drove us back the car was the ticks. We had a
single unidentified empid, and I had hundreds of very small ticks on me.
After some serious de-ticking, we hit the pond on Pageland Road where Laura
Catterton found a King Rail. With only a bit of waiting, we managed to find
the bird. It was on the second, more northerly pond, but easily seen from
the road. A short time later, Mike Iwanik and friend showed up, and after
another twenty minutes or so we got another look at the rail, in generally
the same spot.
From here the four of us hit the turf farms out in Loudoun County, along
Loudoun Parkway south from Route 7 to Smith Switch Road. The southernmost
fields were the most promising with new rain pools in the dirt. However, we
only had about thirty killdeer or so. If anything dropped in there on Friday
night, it remained out of sight, but I'm guessing not much moved on Friday
night. I'm thinking that Sunday might be a good day there.
After leaving Loudoun, we hit one other location near Haymarket, back in
Prince William. Notable at that location were a few bobolinks, one
blue-winged teal, and a common snipe.
Cheers...
Todd
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Todd M. Day
Jeffersonton, VA
Culpeper County
BlkVulture@xxxxxxx
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