FreeLists / va-bird / [va-bird] Huntley Meadows 4-12-03

[PlanetWaves99@xxxxxxx]

Ben Jesup and I spent 2 hours at Huntley Meadows this morning from 6:30 to 
8:30.  Here's a quick list of the highlights:

Common Loon - 6 flyovers
Green Winged Teal 4
Blue Winged Teal 5
Bufflehead 2
Malard - a bunch (2 had green heads but no white neck ring)
Black Duck
Hooded Merg 3
Gadwall 5
Coot

Greater Yellowlegs 2  (hardly any mudflats exposed)

Kestral  - male
Red Tailed Hawk
Red Shouldered Hawk
Coopers Hawk
Sharpshinned
Harrier - possible  - (it was flying high and weird.  It never stopped 
flapping its wings and was doing an undulating flight like a giant 
goldfinch!.  If it wasn't a Harrier, it was probably a Coops���.weird, I 
know, you had to see it to believe it.)

Pileated WP
Brown Creeper
WB Nuthatch 2
Phoebe 4
Tree Swallow - many
Blue Grey Gnatcatcher
Hermit Thrush
Rusty Blackbirds - 100
Rufous Sided Towhee  (I'm stickin' with the cool name, not the bland one!)

Louisiana Waterthrush
Yellow Rumps - 6

Swamp Sp.
Song Sp
White Throat Sp.

Bart Hutchinson
Alexandria, VA

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