FreeLists / va-bird / [va-bird] Dyke Marsh walk (June 5)

["Pam Koger-Jesup and Ben Jesup" <breep@xxxxxxx>]

Below are the belated results of the walk last Sunday.  Highlights were
several oriole nests, views of a singing marsh wren, and a prothonotary
warbler heard singing at the dogleg.
Cormorant 5
Goose 20
Mallard 6
GB heron 10
Osprey 10 (including 2 chicks in the nest south of the end of the peninsula)
GBB gull 4 (all immature)
RB gull 2
Rock pigeon 2
Dove 5
Red-bellied woodpecker 4
Downy 3
Flicker 1
Great crested flycatcher 1
Kingbird 4
Fish crow 1
Jay 3
Red-eyed vireo 3 (including 1 collecting nest material)
Warbling vireo 6
Cedar waxwing 2 (at the dogleg)
Robin 10 (including immatures)
Mocker 1
Catbird 1
Starling 15
Carolina wren 3
Marsh wren 1
Gnatcatcher 12 (including a nest at the dogleg)
Tree swallow 5
Barn swallow 1
Chickadee 2
Titmouse 1
House sparrow 2
Goldfinch 6
House finch 1
Yellow warbler 2
Prothonotary 1
Yellowthroat 1
Cardinal 8
Balt. Oriole 4 (of the 4 oriole nests we saw, we only saw one female
Baltimore enter)
Orchard oriole 1 (female)
RW blackbird 20
Grackle 30 (including immatures)
Cowbird 1

Ben Jesup
Alexandria


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