I won't make a habit of reporting VA birds to MDOsprey, but these
birds were seen within sight of Maryland and DC, so I thought they
might be of interest:
On Sunday, Jan. 7, a.m., I saw an immature Nashville warbler on the
west (non-Potomac) side of the Hunting Creek bridge (just above Belle
Haven picnic area). The bird was seen in dense tangles just beyond
where there is a wooden stake with a pink ribbon, just a few yards
south of the bridge over Hunting Creek. It was in company of a
ruby-crowned kinglet and some white-throated and song sparrows and
kept mid-level in vine-covered young trees. It was a colorful
individual, with mostly (save for a bit of whitish just before the
vent) yellow underparts and greenish-yellow back. Head was light gray
with a weak whitish eyering. Gray extended around hindneck and down
to beginning of back. Bill was thin, tail shortish. It was active and
called once (a thin, weak one-note call). Well seen for about five minutes.
On the opposite side of the George Washington Parkway, in the
Potomac, a cackling goose was scoped close to the shore among the
several hundred Canada geese present.
A peregrine falcon flew overhead at one point, headed north. |