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Sorry this is so late, but here's the report from the Dyke Marsh walk from last 
Sunday.

Dyke Marsh
Alexandria, VA 
October 3rd 2004

Pied Billed Grebe 2
DC Cormorant 38
Canada Goose 3 (THREE!)
Mallard 28
Great Egret 10
Great Blue Heron 3
Greater Yellowlegs 3
Ring Billed Gull 600
Laughing Gull 100
Herring Gull 36
Great Black Backed Gull 16
Forester’s Tern 3
Caspian Tern 3
Kingfisher 2
Cooper’s Hawk 2
Bald Eagle 2
Turkey Vulture 1 
Downy Woodpecker 3
Red Bellied Woodpecker 1
Flicker 2
Crow sp 1
Titmouse 1 (ONE!)
Chickadee 5 (it took us 2 hours and 15 minutes to get the first one!)
Carolina Wren 14
White Breasted Nuthatch 1
Mockingbird 6
Catbird 2
Rufous Sided Towhee 1
Cardinal 16
Blue Jay 18
Rock Dove 1
Mourning Dove 6
Robin 50 
Red Winged Black Bird 35
Rusty Blackbird (Larry Cartwright nabbed this one)
Grackle 3
N. Parula Warbler (Fred Bogar nabbed this one)
Magnolia Warbler (a life bird for a visiting CA birder!)
Starling 130
Gold Finch 2
House Finch 4
House Sparrow 15
Before the walk started, I had a Brown Thrasher and 2 Common Yellowthroats on 
one of the side trails off of Haul Rd.

We also had a second hand report of a BT Green and a Redstart from a birder 
named Bonnie.

Bart Hutchinson
Alexandria, VA

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