FreeLists / va-bird / [va-bird] waterfowl count - Alexandria

["MARC RIBAUDO" <moribaudo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marshall Reinsdorf, Janet Siddle and I counted Area 4 for the NoVa Audubon 
today.  Our area covered Dyke Marsh north to Daingerfield Island and Cameron 
Run.  Waterfowl were scarce (all at Belmont Bay, I guess).  Highlights were a 
common loon, 2 pied-billed grebes, 7 red-breasted mergansers, a peregrine on a 
crane at the Wilson Bridge, and a black-crowned night heron behind the power 
plant.  Passerine highlights included 2 flyover American pipits at Dyke, 2 
singing winter wrens at Dyke, and a single yellow-rumped warbler at Washington 
Marina.  

Here are our waterfowl totals:

common loon - 1
pied-billed grebe - 2
double-crested cormorant - 49
black-crowned night heron - 1
canada goose - 362
black duck - 2
mallard - 78
lesser scaup - 2
bufflehead - 35
hooded merganser - 10
red-breasted merganser - 7
American coot - 4

Marc Ribaudo
Woodbridge, VA