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> From: Steve Cordle [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 8:42 PM
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> Subject: DC Area, 9/11/07
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> Hotline:            Voice of the Naturalist
> Date:               9/11/2007
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> This is the Voice of the Naturalist, a service of the Audubon 
> Naturalist Society. This report was completed Tuesday, Sept 
> 11, at 6:00 p.m.
> 
> Top bird this week is SWALLOW-TAILED KITE in VA.
> 
> Other birds of interest include LITTLE BLUE HERON, raptors, 
> SORA, shorebirds, FRANKLIN'S GULL, terns, BLACK-BILLED 
> CUCKOO, COMMON NIGHTHAWK, CHIMNEY SWIFT, OLIVE-SIDED and 
> YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHERS, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, RED-BREASTED 
> NUTHATCH, BROWN CREEPER, SEDGE WREN, thrushes, including 
> GRAY-CHEEKED, warblers, LARK and LINCOLN'S SPARROWS, and PINE
SISKIN.
> 
> The Kiptopeke Hawkwatch in Northampton Co, VA found a 
> SWALLOW-TAILED KITE on Sept 8, the first for this hawkwatch 
> in 30 years.
> 
> An immature LITTLE BLUE HERON was seen at Blue Mash, 
> Montgomery Co, MD from Sept 7 through the 10th.
> 
> A sub-adult MISSISSIPPI KITE was seen Sept 7 by several 
> observers at the Harvey's Knob Hawkwatch on the Blue Ridge 
> Parkway near Roanoke, VA. This is only the 3rd record of a 
> MISSISSIPPI KITE at this site. 
> 
> An adult GOLDEN EAGLE was seen in Highland Co, VA on Sept 6.
> 
> MERLINS were reported from several locations this past week 
> with two at the Turkey Point Hawkwatch, Cecil Co, MD (see 
> request for volunteers at end) on Sept 5; one on Sept 9 near 
> Violette's Lock on the C&O Canal in Montgomery Co, MD; one on 
> Sept 8 in the Shenandoah NP on a trail near milepost 27; and 
> one at Woodbury Turf Farm off of Walkerton Rd in King William 
> Co, VA on Sept 9. 
> 
> Two PEREGRINE FALCONS were sighted at the Turkey Point Hawk 
> Watch on Sept 5. The PEREGRINE FALCON that frequents the 
> Bailey's Crossroads area of Fairfax Co, VA was also seen on Sept
5.
> 
> While one SORA was seen at Finzel Swamp, Garrett Co, MD on 
> Sept 5, 25 were seen during a boat trip from the Patuxent 
> River Park, Prince George's Co, MD, on Sept 8.
> 
> Migrant shorebirds continued to be found throughout the area. 
> The AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER continued at the polo fields on 
> Hughes Rd in western Montgomery Co all week long along with a 
> COMMON RAVEN on Sept 8. A juvenile American Golden-Plover was 
> reported from Brandon Woods Park in northern Anne Arundel Co 
> on Sept 6, 7, and 8 along with two UPLAND SANDPIPERS and a 
> BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER on Sept 6. An AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER 
> and two BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS were found Sept 8 and 9 at a 
> dried-up pond on the corner of Rte 704 and Rte 11 just north 
> of the village of Mount Crawford in Rockingham Co, VA. Three 
> AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS as well as an UPLAND SANDPIPER were 
> also seen on Sept 9 in Culpeper Co, VA along Newby's Shop Rd; 
> close-by was a BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER. An AMERICAN 
> GOLDEN-PLOVER was also at Liberty Lake in Carroll Co on Sept 10. 
> 
> An AMERICAN AVOCET was found in the marsh at the north end of 
> North Beach, Calvert Co on Sept 7 and was re-found there 
> everyday through the 10th.
> 
> One SANDERLING and a BAIRD'S SANDPIPER were among several 
> shorebirds found at North Branch in south Cumberland, 
> Allegany Co, MD on Sept 5 and a BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER along 
> with a STILT SANDPIPER were there on Sept 8. A BAIRD'S 
> SANDPIPER was found Sept 4 at the pig farm on Indiantown Rd 
> in northeast Dorchester Co, MD. Six BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS 
> were found Sept 7 and 8 at a turf farm on the southwest 
> corner of Buckeystown Rd, Rte 85 about .5 mile south of 
> Adamstown Rd in Frederick Co, MD. 
> 
> Two BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS also showed up at the Central 
> Sod Farm, Queen Anne's Co, MD, on Sept 8. A BUFF-BREASTED 
> SANDPIPER was found at Western Regional Park in Howard Co, MD 
> on Sept 9. 
> 
> A FRANKLIN'S GULL was found on the mudflats in Tom's Cove at 
> Chincoteague, Accomack Co, VA on Sept 8 along with 10 BLACK TERNS.
> 
> A GULL-BILLED TERN was seen at the Chincoteague NWR on Sept 
> 5. A ROYAL TERN was seen during a field trip at Leesylvania 
> SP, Prince William Co, VA on Sept 8.
> 
> BLACK TERNS were sighted on Sept 9 near Violette's Lock on 
> the C&O Canal with more than 15 at one point. Three BLACK 
> TERNS were at the Pocket at the Pamunkey Reservation, King 
> William Co, VA on Sept 9.
> 
> A BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO was reported Sept 9 at the Phelps WMA 
> Hogue Tract near Remington, Fauquier Co, VA. A BLACK-BILLED 
> CUCKOO was also reported from Patapsco Valley SP, Howard Co, 
> MD on Sept 9.
> 
> COMMON NIGHTHAWKS continued to be seen at Tyson's Corner, 
> Fairfax Co, VA, soaring above buildings at Gallows Rd and 
> Boone Blvd near Rte 7; the show commences when the lights 
> come on at 9 p.m.
> 
> Several thousand CHIMNEY SWIFTS were seen at the Luther 
> Jackson Middle School on Gallows Rd in Fairfax Co on Sept 8 
> and 9 with estimates of more than 4,000 at one point on Sept 8. 
> 
> An OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER was found in the dead wood at the 
> top of a tree in the Woodstock Equestrian Park in western 
> Montgomery Co on Sept
> 6 and was still there through the 9th. The highlight of the 
> regular bird walk at Cylburn Arboretum in northern Baltimore 
> City, MD on Sept
> 9 was an OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER.
> 
> YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHERS were reported from several 
> locations this past week including, on Sept 4, one at 
> Terrapin Park, Queen Anne's Co, MD and another at Fort C. F. 
> Smith Park, Arlington Co, VA; on Sept 5 there was one at 
> Cromwell Valley Park, Baltimore, MD as well as at the 
> Maintenance Yard at Rock Creek Park, Washington, DC. And on 
> Sept 8, a YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER was the highlight of a 
> visit to Leesylvania SP, Prince William Co, VA while another 
> turned up Sept 9 at Little Bennett Regional Park, Montgomery Co,
MD. 
> 
> A PHILADELPHIA VIREO was found on Sept 9 at Hashawha in 
> Carroll Co, MD. 
> 
> RED-BREASTED NUTHATCHES continued to pop up all over the place.
> 
> A BROWN CREEPER was found at the Middle Patuxent 
> Environmental Area, Howard Co, MD on Sept 6.
> 
> On Sept 4 there was a SEDGE WREN on Elliot Island Rd in 
> Dorchester Co, MD.
> 
> Reports of migrating thrushes, including a GRAY-CHEEKED 
> THRUSH at Riverwood in King William Co, VA on Sept 9, 
> increased throughout the area during the past week.
> 
> Warblers were seen throughout the area. An ORANGE-CROWNED 
> WARBLER was found at the Terminus in Cumberland, MD on Sept 
> 4. CONNECTICUT WARBLER sightings occurred in Rock Creek Park 
> behind the Nature Center on Sept 7; in Patuxent SP, Howard 
> Co, MD on Sept 9; and on Sept 10 at Battle Creek Cypress 
> Swamp, Calvert Co, MD.
> 
> A LARK SPARROW was seen and photographed in the Vireo Grove 
> on the bayside of Assateague Island, Worchester Co, MD on Sept 7.

> 
> There was a LINCOLN'S SPARROW at Finzel Swamp on Sept 5.
> 
> A PINE SISKIN was seen on the south side of Hagerstown, MD on Sept
10.
> 
> The hawk watch at Snicker's Gap, on the Clarke/Loudoun Co 
> (VA) line, is looking for volunteers to help monitor hawk 
> migration, September-November. For information, call 
> 703-734-1238. The Turkey Gap Hawk Watch in Cecil Co, MD is 
> also looking for volunteers; for information, email 
> 
> 
> Some of this week's reports have been gleaned from the 
> MDOsprey and VA-Bird, list servers.
>  
> Finding Birds in the National Capital Area by Claudia Wilds 
> is an excellent source for directions to many birding sites. 
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> www.audubonnaturalist.org/cgi-bin/mesh/store) is an excellent 
> source for this and many other nature-related titles.
> 
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