[va-bird] Gunston Cove and Accotink Bay

[Rick Jones <rgjones23@xxxxxxx>]

We birded Gunston Cove and Accotink Bay from Ft. Belvoir this morning.  The=
 highlight was a Prairie Warbler on the Basin Trail in the Accotink Bay Wil=
dlife Refuge.  Prairie Warblers have been present in and around the clearin=
g at the south end of the trail since last Wednesday.  Also observed:=20

Osprey (many)
Bald eagle (many, mostly immature)
Lesser scaup (6)
American coot (5)
Double-crested cormorant (11)

The scaup, coots, and cormorants were avoiding speedboat traffic on the eas=
t side of Gunston Cove, south of the old pier near the fuel cell research f=
acility on Johnston Road, Ft. Belvoir.=20

Mute swan (1, at the north end of Accotink Bay)
Canada goose (and goslings)
Mallard (4)
Tree swallow
Barn swallow
Great blue heron (8)
Forster=E2=80=99s tern (1)
Eastern bluebird (2)
Mourning dove
Northern mockingbird
Blue jay
Brown thrasher
American crow
Fish crow
Common grackle
Red-winged blackbird
European starling
Northern cardinal
Song sparrow (5)
White-throated sparrow (1)

A large population of White-Throated Sparrows foraged in the woods along Jo=
hnston Road this past Wednesday.  Only one appeared today.=20

Pileated woodpecker (1)
Downy woodpecker (1)
Red-bellied woodpecker
White-breasted nuthatch (1)
Carolina wren
Blue-gray gnatcatcher
Red-eyed vireo
White-eyed vireo
Northern parula
Common yellowthroat
Yellow-rumped warbler
Eastern kingbird
Orchard oriole
Baltimore oriole

The orioles were near and south of the archery range on Ft. Belvoir.

Semipalmated plover (2)
Lesser yellowlegs (2)
Greater yellowlegs (1)
Wilson=E2=80=99s snipe (1)
Spotted sandpiper (1)

The shorebirds were best observed from the Basin Overlook spur to the
Basin Trail.  Two Osprey perched in a tree about 30 feet above us there.

American goldfinch
Carolina chickadee (2)
Tufted titmouse

Rick and Karen Jones
Alexandria
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