FreeLists / va-bird / [va-bird] Upper Middle Peninsula, Sunday feb 13

[Frederick Atwood <fredatwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

I visited King William and King and Queen
counties for several hours on Sunday.  
Dramatic decrease in waterfowl.  Have they
started heading north?
Highlights were short-billed dowitcher, several
snipes, good number of swans, fox sparrrows

1. King and Queen landfill
Nothing unusual, herring, ring-billed, great
black-backed gulls
the only fish crows of the day (10)
3 adult and 5 imm bald eagles

2. Walker's pond on Canterbury Rd (Walkerton,
K&Q)
21 male, 5 female ring-necked duck
1 pair american wigeon
2 male lesser scaup
1250 canada geese

3. my property on Upper Mattaponi Beulahville
(KW)
more ruby-crowned kinglets than i've seen all
winter (12): are they moving north?
8 winter wrens
1 hermit thrush
2 red-shouldered hawks in territorial flight
overhead
2 calling barred owl
1 wood duck
3 fox sparrows (new for my property list)

4. The Pocket/Elsing Green/Pamunkey landing (KW)
31 snipe (boat landing)
2 short-billed dowitchers (possibly same birds as
seen on Walkerton CBC by Bruce Beehler?) boat
landing
1 lesser yellowlegs (boat landing)
4 pied-billed grebe (pocket)
18 great blue heron
15 killdeer (no lapwing)
1950 Canada Goose
120 tundra swan
vultures were not at their usual roost (strange!)
where there were over 200 at times
19 male, 3 female ring-neck duck
20 black duck
21 male 16 female mallard
2 male 1 female wood duck
3 male 1 female pintail 
16 male, 6 female green winged teal
1 pair gadwall
8 male, 7 feamle bufflehead
(no ruddies!)
1 male hooded merganser
5 male 3 female common merganser
10 double-crested cormorant


RAPTOR TOTALS FOR THE DAY
bald eagle 14 adult, 13 imm (photographed an
adult eating a road-kill raccoon)
red-tailed hawk 6
red-shouldered hawk 6
kestrel 5
cooper's hawk 1
2 barred owl

also 38 turkey vulture 35 black vulture


Also 3 rusty blackbirds at Walkerton bridge
30-35,000 mixed blackbirds (60% grackles) at dusk
at Pocket area.

All the best
fred

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Frederick D. Atwood     fredatwood@xxxxxxxxx
Flint Hill School, 10409 Academic Dr, Oakton, VA 22124
703-242-1675     
http://www.agpix.com/fredatwood
http://www.flinthill.org
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