VA-Birders,
Riverside Park, off the GW Parkway, just north of Mount Vernon,
continues to be a great place to view wintering waterfowl in the
Northern Virginia area. Many thousands have been resting and feeding
there over the last couple of weeks--- geese, swans, ducks, coots,
and gulls. Some rafts are close enough for nice scope views, others
too distant to identify. Eight Tundra Swans were there today, along
with Gadwall, American Wigeon, American Black Duck, Mallard,
Canvasback, Ring-necked Duck, Lesser Scaup, Bufflehead, Common and
Red-breasted Merganser, and zillions of American Coots. I couldn't
spot any Redhead, Greater Scaup, Hooded Merganser, or Ruddy Ducks
today, but they had been present in the last week and are probably
embedded somewhere in the tightly packed rafts of mostly sleeping birds.
Bald Eagles are plentiful up and down the parkway and three Fox
Sparrows have been foraging in open patches of grass along the edge
of the parking lot at Riverside for the past two days, quite
oblivious to cars, people, and photographers like myself. Four images
of the seed munchers can be seen beginning with http://www.pbase.com/ ;
paulasullivan/image/74512943
Paula Sullivan
Alexandria
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