VA Birders:
Bengt Grandin, a visitor from Sweden, and I visited Burke Lake in Fairfax
County this morning about 9 am and saw the Red Necked Grebe. It was to the
east of the marina about 100 feet from the far shore, drifting and dozing
with a Pied Billed Grebe and a Ruddy Duck it occasionally lifted its head to
show its juvenile facial markings. We walked around the cove a ways so we
weren't looking directly in the sun and got good looks. It was a lifer for
me. No other birders were there at the time.
We moved on to Mason Neck State Park for the Brant. Bengt found it just
offshore to the left of the visitor center. Great looks in bright sunlight
by then. Other birds of note in Belmont bay among the hundreds of Ruddy
Ducks and Lesser Scaup were maybe ten Bufflehead, 3 Canvasbacks, 3 Horned
Grebes and 2 Goldeneye flying over.
Bill Cross
Arlington
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