FreeLists / va-richmond-general / [va-richmond-general] RAS field trip to Henricus 4/12/03

[WEalding@xxxxxxx]

Twelve expert participants were treated to the first good day in a week.  The 
cold wet weather seems to have stopped migration in its tracks.  The river 
was very high and flowing fast; it was strange to see four deer swimming 
across the river and getting carried downstream towards Rivers Bend golf 
course.

Bird species recorded (I may have missed some):

                             
  Double-crested Cormorant              
  Great Blue Heron                      
  Canada Goose     (several on nests)                     
  Wood Duck        (several)                     
  Mallard                               
  Northern Shoveler     (one lone male)                
  Black Vulture                         
  Turkey Vulture                        
  Osprey      (on the nest)                          
  Bald Eagle                            
  Red-shouldered Hawk                   
  Red-tailed Hawk                       
  American Kestrel                      
  Killdeer                              
  Laughing Gull                         
  Caspian Tern                          
  Mourning Dove                         
  Barred Owl         (just the tail sticking out of the nest hole)            
       
  Belted Kingfisher                     
  Red-bellied Woodpecker                
  Downy Woodpecker                      
  Northern Flicker                      
  Pileated Woodpecker                   
  Tree Swallow                          
  Blue Jay                              
  American Crow                         
  Fish Crow                             
  Carolina Chickadee                    
  Tufted Titmouse                       
  White-breasted Nuthatch               
  Carolina Wren                         
  House Wren                            
  Blue-gray Gnatcatcher          (lots)       
  Eastern Bluebird                      
  Hermit Thrush    (singing)                     
  American Robin                        
  Northern Mockingbird                  
  Brown Thrasher        (nesting)                
  European (Common) Starling            
  White-eyed Vireo                      
  Yellow-throated Warbler               
  Pine Warbler                          
  Northern Cardinal                     
  Chipping Sparrow                      
  Swamp Sparrow      (singing)                   
  White-throated Sparrow                
  Red-winged Blackbird                  
  Common Grackle                        
  Brown-headed Cowbird                  
  House Finch                           
  American Goldfinch                    


Wendy Ealding
Chesterfield


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