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["French, Christopher L." <CHRISTOPHER.L.FRENCH@xxxxxxxx>]

Sorry for the delay in getting this out... apparently my first attempt
didn't go through...

>  -----Original Message-----
> From:         French, Chris  
> Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 10:48 AM
> To:   'va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject:      104 species at HMP (5/7/02)
> 
> Greetings, VA-BIRDers.
> 
> Yesterday (Tuesday, May 7th) was the annual Bird-a-thon at Huntley Meadows
> Park (a fundraiser for a Park internship program).  Approximately 15
> birders (split into four teams) scoured the park from about 6am to 11:30
> am.  Two teams worked the east and west sides of the hike-bike trail and
> two teams split duties on the boardwalk and Deer and Heron trails.  At the
> compilation lunch, we combined lists and ended up at 103 - one more than
> the Bird-a-thon's previous record.  The new record was due in large part
> to 18 species of warbler recorded on the west side of the park, 12 species
> on the est side - combining for a total of 20 warbler species.  Some of
> the better sightings included MERLIN, BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO, and CAPE MAY
> WARBLER.  With a few big misses, a couple of us returned to the boardwalk
> for about an hour and added one species (albeit quite unexpected) - a pair
> of SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS.
> 
> Consider the total if some of the birds seen in the park in the last two
> days had been found (little blue heron, kingfisher, either vulture,
> red-tail, laughing gull, ruby-crowned kinglet, etc.)
> 
> Here's the complete list (numbers are approximate):
> 
> DC cormorant - 83
> american bittern - 3 or 4 (3 seen flying over the hike-bike trail in the
> am, 1 in the marsh in the pm)
> GB heron - 21
> great egret - 15
> SNOWY EGRET - 1
> green heron - 5
> canada goose - 101 (many goslings)
> wood duck - 18 (one group of ducklings)
> mallard - 24 (a couple groups of ducklings)
> hooded merganser - 11 (one group of merganserlings)
> osprey - 3
> red-shoulder - 7
> AMERICAN KESTREL - 2 (breeding pair)
> MERLIN - 1
> killdeer - 1
> SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS - 2
> greater yellowlegs - 1
> lesser yellowlegs - 10
> solitary sandpiper - 11
> spotted sandpiper - 4
> least sandpiper - 10
> ring-billed gull - 1
> rock dove - 2
> mourning dove - 20
> yellow-billed cucko - 5
> BLACK-BILLED CUCKO - 1
> barred owl - 4
> COMMON NIGHTHAWK - 2
> chimney swift - 19
> ruby-throated hummer - 15
> red-bellied woodpecker - 33
> downy woodpecker
> hairy woodpecker
> northern flicker
> pileated woodpecker
> eastern wood-pewee
> acadian flycatcher
> eastern phoebe
> great-crested flycatcher
> eastern kingbird
> purple martin - 2
> tree swallow
> barn swallow
> n rough-winged swallow
> BANK SWALLOW - 1
> blue jay - 97
> am crow - 109
> fish crow - 16
> (crow sp - 33)
> carolina chickadee - 28
> tufted titmouse - 38
> wb nuthatch - 5
> carolina wren - 20
> house wren - 4
> glue-gray gnat - 61
> eastern bluebird - 20
> veery - 8
> Swainson's thrush - 9
> wood thrush - 6
> am robin - 11
> gray catbird - 11
> northern mockingbird - 2
> cedar waxwing - 74
> european starling - 3
> white-eyed vireo - 4
> red-eyed vireo - 66
> blue-winged warbler - 1
> nashville - 4
> northern parula - 9
> yellow - 1
> chestnut-sided - 5
> magnolia - 12
> CAPE MAY - 1
> black-throated blue - 11
> yellow-rumped - 105
> black-throated green - 3
> pine - 2
> blackpoll - 4
> black-and-white - 3
> am redstart - 6
> worm-eating - 3
> ovenbird - 16
> northern waterthrush - 3
> common yellowthroat - 37
> hooded warbler - 2
> WILSON'S - 1
> canada - 3
> scarlet tanager - 16
> northern cardinal - 37
> rose-breasted grosbeak - 2
> blue grosbeak - 8
> indigo bunting - 13
> towhee - 9
> chipping sparrow - 1
> song sparrow - 6
> swamp sparrow - 7
> white-throated sparrow - 26
> red-winged bb - 100+
> common grackle - 372
> brown-headed cowbird - 9
> orchard oriole - 1
> baltimore oriole - 2
> house finch - 2
> american goldfinch - 54
> house sparrow - 3
> 
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> 
> Chris French
> SAIC Systems Development Center
> 703-292-6302
> frenchc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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