Eagle Festival at Mason Neck State Park

Saturday Apr 24, 10:00 AM
Mason Neck State Park

7301 High Point Rd, Lorton, VA Telephone for park: [masked] (Jerry) or [masked] (John)

27 attendees

Jerry Organizer
John Eppler Co-Organizer
The weather was not as bad as expected, only occassional rain. Unfortunately, weather is an uncontrollable factor. The view of the rookery was very distant, difficult to photograph. The rest of the festival was good. I saw many of the people how came to the festival and received calls from others who came later. I'm sorry we missed you. Some of us went to Occaquan Bay NWR to photograph osprey.
Jamie Kiechlin
The meetup was fun and I found a cool new park that I never knew about. I saw two eagles on the nature trails. Thanks John for pointing out the Boy Scout blind on the Bayview trail. I was able to photograph an eagle perched in the tree across the marsh. I needed more glass (had a 200mm with a 300 equivalent on APS-C sensor D90), but I got a picture of an eagle and that's a start!
mike
i had a good time, I didnt see anyone from the group, but I think it was cuz I was late getting there and left a little early. Anyway, I got some decent shots, and found cool park!
deepak (+1 guest)
Beautiful day, beautiful people..Thanks to John for the tips and tricks.
karel
Tatyana (+1 guest) Co-Organizer
Clifton (+4 guests)
Vareck
carol
Bernard Chen (+1 guest)
Perla Copernik
Jamie
TuDo
Robert Assistant Organizer
Rebecca
Anna
3 former members

The Eagle Festival features local and national environmental organizations, live music, canoe tours, hay and pony rides, trips to a great blue heron rookery, environmental education stations and bird-banding demonstrations. Live shows with reptiles, aquatic animals, hawks and owls are also on tap. And it's all free.

More information to be provided later.

Schedule available here.

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Eagle Festival at Mason Neck State Park

27 attendees

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