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BRYBC Winter Field Trip to Northern Virginia

1/9/2018

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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


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