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["Marc Ribaudo" <mribaudo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

About a dozen folks remembered to change their clocks and show up for
the Dyke Marsh birdwalk this morning.  No mass of migrants, but a nice
walk nonetheless. We saw the three "expected" grebe species from the
boardwalk, and had great looks at blue-gray gnatcatcher, ruby-crowned
kinglet, Caspian tern, and brown thrasher.  We saw 56 species in all. 
Here is the complete list:

pied-billed grebe
red-necked grebe - 2 in basic plumage
horned grebe - at least three, two in breeding plumage
double-crested cormorant
great-blue heron
canada goose
mallard
lesser scaup
bufflehead
hooded merganser (1 prior to the walk)
osprey
bald eagle
american coot
ring-billed gull
great black-backed gull
herring gull
Bonaparte's gull (2 off Hunbting towers before the walk)
Caspian tern
Forster's tern
rock dove
mourning dove
belted kingfisher
red-bellied woodpecker
downy woodpecker
hairy woodpecker
northern flicker
tree swallow
northern rough-winged swallow
barn swallow
ruby-crowned kinglet
carolina wren
gray catbird
northern mockingbird
brown thrasher
American robin
blue-gray gnatcatcher
carolina chickadee
tufted titmouse
brown creeper
blue jay
fish crow
starling
yellow-rumped warbler (numerous0
pine warbler (1 in picnic area before walk)
eastern towhee
field sparrow
song sparrow
swamp sparrow
white-throated sparrow
northern cardinal
red-winged blackbird
common grackle
brown-headeded cowbird
house finch
american goldfinch
house sparrow

Marc Ribaudo
Woodbridge, VA

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