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Worm-Eating Warbler - Violette's Lock, C&O Canal, Montgomery County

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Rob Hilton

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Rob Hilton

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Thu, 2 Jul 2009 15:42:16 -0700

Hi, I'm posting this for Steve Hersey, who is not on MDOsprey.  
Cheers, 
Rob HiltonSilver Spring++++++++Worm-Eating Warbler - Violette's Lock, C&O Canal, Montgomery County

At 1:30 today I was strolling the Canal around Violette's lock looking for the Neotropic Cormorant (with no luck) and was surprised to find a worm-eating warbler bopping around in the tangles of branches about 6 feet above the canal (across the canal from the towpath).  It gave me a great look, then continued on it's way.  I stayed around for almost an hour but it never reappeared and never made a sound.  I don't recall seeing any mention of WEWAs in that area outside of migration - has anyone else had any?

For location, it was exactly 0.66 miles downriver of the wooden bridge at Violette's Lock.  GPS 39.063076N 77.318718W.  Appropriately enough it is right where there is a huge, very steep slope going up across the canal (perfect Wormy territory).  About 15 feet to the right of where I saw it there is a small fenced-in area with some equipment and a sign that looks like it belongs to WSSC - this is nearly completely hidden by the trees but thought this landmark might be useful.

The Violette's Lock area also produced at least 8 Great-crested Flycatchers, one very rambunctious Yellow-billed Cuckoo making a racket while carrying around an enormous bug, two Parulas singing up a storm way up high, an insistent Pewee in the parking lot, a Baltimore Oriole couple, a beautiful Red-tailed Hawk that buzzed down the canal right after a Great Blue Heronflew by, and a whole bunch of the usual suspects.

Cheers,
Steve Hersey
Washington, DC