Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 23:38:02 -0400 Reply-To: jncmessina@worldnet.att.net Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: John Messina Subject: Yellow-breasted Chat in West Alexandria Comments: To: Va Bird List MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Walking home from Landmark Honda (west Alexandria) after dropping off my car this morning, I was treated to a flurry of activity, for about ten minutes around 10:00 a.m., in a sycamore tree at the north end of the footbridge over Holmes Run, near South Pickett Street and Holmes Run Parkway by the new City Library, conveniently in the lower branches of the tree. Along with several other warblers (B&W, magnolia, black-throated green, redstart), a yellow-breasted chat joined the fun. This section of Holmes Run also hosts a variety of waterfowl: great blue herons, kingfishers, mallards and gulls. John Messina Alexandria VA jncmessina@worldnet.att.net ======================================================================== To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================== ==========================================================================