On December 30th Logan Anderson led a winter field trip to northern Virginia. Despite the bitter cold, we had a good turn out of 7 young birders. The trip started at Dyke Marsh, where we scanned the Potomac River and walked a few trails, finding fourteen species of waterfowl, including 3 long-tailed ducks and over forty common mergansers. Another highlight was an orange-crowned warbler. We proceeded to the Laurel Hill Equestrian Area, where we successfully chased a continuing clay-colored sparrow. We re-found a male Eurasian wigeon amidst a flock of five-hundred ducks at Pohick Bay Regional Park. We ended the day by standing on top of the parking garage at Dulles Airport, looking for snowy and short-eared owls. We soon found the snowy perched on top of an airport terminal, and as it got darker the short-eared owls began to fly about on the runways as well.
Here are links to two young birder blog posts from the trip:
Birdsandbuds.com
Blueridgebirder.com
by Ezra
Here are links to two young birder blog posts from the trip:
Birdsandbuds.com
Blueridgebirder.com
by Ezra
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