FreeLists / va-bird / [va-bird] Re: Huntley Meadows Park, 061404

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Gentle Readers,

John Perry, Mary Floyd, and Gene Keefe led a group of 12 birders Monday 
morning, 6/14/2004, at Huntley Meadows Park.  It is clear that spring migration 
has ended and that summer has begun.  The early summer residents including the 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo are here.  Wood Ducks, Mallards, and Canada Geese are 
about to turn loose their young chicks, now near adults.  An immature Osprey  
did an excellent imitation of a harrier fishing for about twenty minutes near 
the Tower yesterday morning.

Number  Common Name

3       Great Blue Heron
2       Great Egret
1       Green Heron
40      Canada Goose
2       Wood Duck
17      Mallard
2       Osprey
3       Mourning Dove
2       Yellow-billed Cuckoo
5       Chimney Swift
3       Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1       Red-bellied Woodpecker
6       Downy Woodpecker
1       Eastern Wood-Pewee
1       Acadian Flycatcher
4       Eastern Phoebe
3       Tree Swallow
4       Northern Rough-winged Swallow
3       Barn Swallow
3       American Crow
3       Carolina Chickadee
6       Carolina Wren
3       Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1       Eastern Bluebird
2       Northern Mockingbird
1       Red-eyed Vireo
5       Common Yellowthroat
1       Scarlet Tanager
3       Northern Cardinal
2       Indigo Bunting
1       Field Sparrow
1       Song Sparrow
18      Common Grackle
1       Brown-headed Cowbird
1       House Finch
35      Red-winged Blackbird
6       American Goldfinch
1       House Sparrow

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
Park Volunteer
703-768-3793
Alexandria, VA


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