FreeLists / va-richmond-general / [va-richmond-general] Happy New Year #2

[Lewis Barnett <lbarnett@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

While I didn't find any owls, I had a nice morning of birding in the 
Pony Pasture and Wetlands sections of James River Park this New Year's 
Day. Once the sun was well up, things were pretty birdy. Okay, most of 
the birds were Chickadees and Yellow-rumped Warblers, but there were 
quite a few of them! Highlights were both Kinglets, five woodpeckers 
(Downy, Red-bellied, Sapsucker, Flicker and Pileated), two Brown 
Creepers, a Winter Wren, a Fox Sparrow in the Wetlands meadow, and one 
Great Black-Backed Gull on the river as I drove out. On the way home, I 
stopped by the Stony Point Office Park pond on Forest Hill Avenue 
(behind the Ukrops shopping center) and was treated to four Hooded 
Mergansers and three Ruddy Ducks among the usual Ring-necked Ducks.
Complete list for James River Park below.

Good birding!

Lewis

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Lewis Barnett -- Chair, Dept. of Math & CS, U. of Richmond, VA 23173
              -- lbarnett@xxxxxxxxxxxx | lbarnett@xxxxxxx
              -- http://www.mathcs.richmond.edu/~lbarnett/

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Location:     James River Park - Pony Pasture Section
Observation date:     1/1/08
Number of species:     37

Canada Goose     30
Mallard     23
Bufflehead     45
Double-crested Cormorant     13
Red-shouldered Hawk     2
Ring-billed Gull     41
Great Black-backed Gull     1
Mourning Dove     1
Belted Kingfisher     1
Red-bellied Woodpecker     9
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker     1
Downy Woodpecker     7
Northern Flicker     1
Pileated Woodpecker     1
Eastern Phoebe     1
American Crow     15
Carolina Chickadee     25
Tufted Titmouse     8
White-breasted Nuthatch     3
Brown Creeper     2
Carolina Wren     14
Winter Wren     1
Golden-crowned Kinglet     1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet     6
Eastern Bluebird     2
Hermit Thrush     1
American Robin     2
Cedar Waxwing     6
Yellow-rumped Warbler     31
Field Sparrow     1
Fox Sparrow     1
Song Sparrow     5
White-throated Sparrow     9
Dark-eyed Junco     2
Northern Cardinal     10
House Finch     5
American Goldfinch     6

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