Yesterday, Sunday the 21st, I conducted a casual breeding bird survey here on
the Abbey lands, and found most of what I consider typical for our nesting
species. The Ovenbirds seem to have been quite successful this year, as the
woods were chock full of them wherever I stepped. On Saturday our pair of
Canada Geese, which had hatched 6 goslings about a week ago, marched their
brood off into the woods, and I haven't seen them since. It seemed at the time
a rather unprudent thing to do, but they didn't ask me.
Also on Saturday, in the late afternoon, I heard a faint call of the
Screech-Owl, and followed the sound down towards the river, where I startled
two owls, one reddish-brown and the other gray. They flushed from a mountain
laurel tangle, and the brown one flew right at me, then landed on a branch 5
feet above my head, clacking its bill loudly and and twitching its tail. Then
both owls flew off, in opposite directions, and I didn't see them again.
Black Vulture 4
Turkey Vulture 11
Broad-winged Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk 2
Ruffed Grouse 3
Wild Turkey 20
Mourning Dove 2
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 2
Chimney Swift 2
Ruby-thr. Hummingbird 13
Red-bellied Woodpecker 4
Downy Woodpecker 7
Hairy Woodpecker 3
Pileated Woodpecker
Wood-Pewee 9
Acadian Flycatcher 11
Phoebe 10
Great Crested Flycatcher
Yellow-thr. Vireo 4
Blue-headed Vireo 9
Red-eyed Vireo 19
Blue Jay 4
Crow 7
Tree Swallow 5
Barn Swallow 3
Carolina Chickadee 11
Titmouse 8
White-br. Nuthatch 12
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 5
Bluebird 2
Wood Thrush 15
Robin 2
Brown Thrasher 2
Cedar Waxwing 4
Cerulean Warbler 11
Black&White Warbler 7
Redstart 18
Worm-eating Warbler 6
Ovenbird 43
LA Waterthrush
Kentucky Warbler 4
Hooded Warbler 20
Scarlet Tanager 17
Eastern Towhee 23
Chipping Sparrow 18
Field Sparrow 2
Song Sparrow 6
Cardinal 4
Indigo Bunting 28
Red-winged Blackbird 12
Meadowlark 2
House Finch 7
Am. Goldfinch 22
Father John
Blue Ridge Parkway
Franklin County
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