FreeLists / va-bird / [va-bird] Monticello Park, Friday 5/4 evening

[Renee Grebe <grebe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I visited Monitcello Park (with my Mom who is in town for a birding weekend 
visit) this evening from ~6:20pm - 7:45pm.  The park was fairly quiet, save for 
the RED BELLIES and BLUE JAYS.  Our first bird of the evening walk was a 
NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH (which we observed several times in the stream after 
that).  Several YELLOW RUMPED WABLERS were seen (as expected), and at least one 
SWAMP SPARROW.

The highlights were a NASHVILLE WARBLER (2nd sighting ever!) out in the open on 
a tree branch over the creek for ~5 seconds, and soon after in a nearby low 
tree, great looks at my first WORM-EATING WARBLER!  A male and female BLACK 
THROATED BLUE WABLER were also spotted (separately).

Audible highlight was the most beautiful song of a VEERY echoing in the trees.  
We did also see a VEERY, HERMIT THRUSH, & a WOOD THRUSH.

Happy Spring evening!
-Renee Grebe 
 Alexandria, VA



On Fri, 4 May 2007 19:49:31 -0400, "Cliff Otto" <ottoc.bb.etc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> These birds from this afternoon can be added to Rob's list of Monticello
> Park sightings
> Black-throated Green Warbler
> Black-and-white Warbler (M&F)
> Yellow Warbler
> Scarlet Tanager (M&F)
> Brown-headed Cowbird
> Tufted Titmouse
> American Crow
> 
> All of the above, except for the crows, were seen bathing. There were
> other
> warbler species reported that I did not see.
> 
> Cliff Otto
> Alexandria
> 
> 
> On 5/4/07, Young, Rob <ryoung@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> A good start to this morning at Monticello with three thrushes and a
>> dozen warbler species before 8am including Blue-winged, Northern
>> Waterthrush and an American Redstart
>>
>> Rob Young
>> Alexandria, VA
>>
>> Location:     Monticello Park
>> Observation date:     04/05/07
>> Number of species:     30
>>
>> Mallard     3
>> Red-bellied Woodpecker     1
>> Red-eyed Vireo     3
>> Blue Jay     1
>> Carolina Wren     2
>> Ruby-crowned Kinglet     2
>> Veery     1
>> Hermit Thrush     4
>> Wood Thrush     1
>> Gray Catbird     1
>> European Starling     X
>> Blue-winged Warbler     1
>> Northern Parula     1
>> Chestnut-sided Warbler     1
>> Black-throated Blue Warbler     6
>> Yellow-rumped Warbler     15
>> Blackpoll Warbler     2
>> Black-and-white Warbler     1
>> American Redstart     1
>> Worm-eating Warbler     1
>> Ovenbird     2
>> Northern Waterthrush     1
>> Common Yellowthroat     1
>> Eastern Towhee     2
>> Song Sparrow     1
>> Swamp Sparrow     1
>> White-throated Sparrow     3
>> Northern Cardinal     X
>> American Goldfinch     3
>> House Sparrow     X
>>
>> This report was generated automatically by eBird v2
>> (http://www.ebird.org <http://www.ebird.org/> )


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