FreeLists / va-bird / [va-bird] Re: Huntley Meadows Park, 050205

[bonxie@xxxxxxx (Chris French)]

Here is a stellar example of how work can impinge on your birding success.  
When I left at 9am (for work) the rest of these non-working folks conjured up 
bald eagle, ruby-crowned kinglet, mockingbird, thrasher, northern parula, 
hooded warbler, snipe, chipping sp, white-crowned sparrow (really?!), and 
several others.  Its never a good time to leave...

But before they had rolled out of bed (I was at the park just before 6am) I was 
treated to VEERY, HERMIT, and WOOD THRUSH song and had a singing male BALTIMORE 
ORIOLE on the edge of the central marsh area.  I can add LESSER YELLOWLEGS to 
the shorebird list (one SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER present Sunday) and numerous 
GREAT BLUES, a coulple WOOD DUCK, 2 OSPREY (one packing breakfast) and three 
RUSTY BLACKBIRDS.  Only warbler to add would be BLACK-THROATED GREEN.  Sorry, I 
had a complete report ready to go but my computer somehow swallowed it (user 
error, no doubt).

-Chris French
bonxie@xxxxxxx
Oakton, VA
 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: <fbogar@xxxxxxx>
> Gentle Readers,
> 
> Chris French led a group of 18 birders this morning, May 2, 2005, from 0710 
> to 
> 1000 at Huntley Meadows Park.  We saw and heard over 70 species including a 
> Blue 
> Grosbeak.  The American Redstart were found, low in the trees, down Barnyard 
> Run 
> just beyond the tower on the informal trail.  It was a warblish kind of day.
> 
> Number        Common Name
> 9     Double-crested Cormorant
> 2     American Bittern
> 1     Great Egret
> 1     Green Heron
> 1     Black Vulture
> 60    Canada Goose
> 8     Mallard
> 6     Hooded Merganser
> 1     Bald Eagle
> 2     Red-shouldered Hawk
> 1     Killdeer
> 23    Greater Yellowlegs
> 4     Solitary Sandpiper
> 1     Spotted Sandpiper
> 9     Least Sandpiper
> 1     Wilson's Snipe
> 1     Ring-billed Gull
> 1     Mourning Dove
> 1     Barred Owl
> 5     Chimney Swift
> 2     Ruby-throated Hummingbird
> 1     Belted Kingfisher
> 1     Red-headed Woodpecker
> 10    Red-bellied Woodpecker
> 1     Downy Woodpecker
> 1     Hairy Woodpecker
> 1     Northern Flicker
> 2     Pileated Woodpecker
> 3     Eastern Phoebe
> 3     Great Crested Flycatcher
> 20    Tree Swallow
> 8     Barn Swallow
> 64    Blue Jay
> 2     American Crow
> 1     Fish Crow
> 3     Carolina Chickadee
> 4     Tufted Titmouse
> 3     Carolina Wren
> 1     Ruby-crowned Kinglet
> 7     Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
> 3     Eastern Bluebird
> 2     Wood Thrush
> 9     American Robin
> 7     Gray Catbird
> 1     Northern Mockingbird
> 1     Brown Thrasher
> 24    European Starling
> 7     Red-eyed Vireo
> 2     Blue-winged Warbler
> 1     Northern Parula
> 1     Black-throated Blue Warbler
> 3     Yellow-rumped Warbler
> 5     Black-and-white Warbler
> 2     American Redstart
> 2     Worm-eating Warbler
> 3     Ovenbird
> 2     Northern Waterthrush
> 12    Common Yellowthroat
> 1     Hooded Warbler
> 3     Scarlet Tanager
> 8     Northern Cardinal
> 1     Blue Grosbeak
> 1     Chipping Sparrow
> 1     Song Sparrow
> 3     Swamp Sparrow
> 68    White-throated Sparrow
> 1     White-crowned Sparrow
> 30    Common Grackle
> 3     Brown-headed Cowbird
> 2     House Sparrow
> 78    Red-winged Blackbird
> 25    American Goldfinch
> 
> Huntley Meadows Park can be reached from the Beltway by driving south on US 
> Route 1 approximately three miles to Lockheed Boulevard.  Turn right on 
> Lockheed 
> Boulevard and proceed to the intersection of Lockheed and Harrison Lane.  The 
> Park entrance is on the left.  
> 
> The regularly scheduled Monday Morning Birdwalk is open to all; the group 
> meets 
> at 0700 in the Visitor's Center Parking Lot.  
> 
> For information about this and other programs at Huntley Meadows Park, please 
> call the Staff at 703-768-2525.
> 
> Frederic D. Bogar
> 703-768-3793
> Alexandria, VA
> 
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