25 December
      After I finished one of my winter counts yesterday I walked around the 
impoundments(starting to fill in) to see if any thing of interest was 
present.  Met a non-birder I know ( but someone who knows at least some 
birds), walking his dog.  He reported that he had seen a shrike,presumably a 
northern, a couple days ago perched along the N-S dike.  I looked for it 
without any success, but they have such a large winter territory I could 
have easily missed it.
       When I first started coming here years ago a Loggerhead Shrike was 
often present in the parking lot during the winter, but those days are long 
past.

Paul Woodward
Fairfax City, VA