I found a Bewick's wren this morning on Cockpit Pt. Rd. in Dumfries, at the
bottom of the hill near the small pond on the left. It flew across the road
and ducked into some vegetation under the guard rail. My first impression was
winter wren, but part of my brain was telling me the undersides were white or
very pale. I pished, and it popped up, giving me good looks of its white
supercillium and white underparts.
The rest of the morning was just ok. Cockpit Pt. Rd. was decidedly un-birdy,
lacking the frantic activity that frequently marks a morning in early May. I
also visited Leesylvania State Park, Metz Wetlands, and Occoquan NWR.
Leesylvania seemed to have the most activitly. I finished with 109 species,
including 22 warblers. Other notables were semipalmated plover (ash pond),
Tennessee warbler (Leesylvania), Wilson's warbler (Leesylvania), Canada warbler
(Leesylvania), northern waterthrush (Occoquan), yellow-billed cuckoo (several
stops), white-crowned sparrow (Occoquan), and northern bobwhite (Occoquan).
Here is a list of what I saw:
d.c. cormorant
great blue heron
great egret
green heron
canada goose
wood duck
mallard
turkey vulture
osprey
bald eagle
red-tailed hawk
wild turkey
northern bobwhite
king rail
semipalmated plover
killdeer
greater yellowlegs
lesser yellowlegs
solitary sandpiper
least sandpiper
herring gull
laughing gull
rock pigeon
mourning dove
yellow-billed cuckoo
barred owl
chimney swift
ruby-throated hummingbird
red-bellied woodpecker
downy woodpecker
hairy woodpecker
northern flicker
pileated woodpecker
easter wood pewee
acadian flycatcher
eastern phoebe
great crested flycatcher
purple martin
tree swallow
northern rough-winged swallow
barn swallow
ruby-crowned kinglet
cedar waxwing
carolina wren
Bewick's wren
house wren
gray catbird
northern mockingbird
brown thrasher
eastern bluebird
wood thrush
American robin
blue-gray gnatcatcher
carolina chickadee
tufted titmouse
white-breasted nuthatch
blue jay
American crow
fish crow
eu. startling
white-eyed vireo
yellow-throated vireo
warbling vireo
red-eyed vireo
Tennessee warbler
Nashville warbler
northern parula
yellow warbler
chestnut-sided warbler
black-throated blue warbler
black-throated green warbler
yellow-rumped warbler
yellow-throated warbler
pine warbler
prairie warbler
blackpoll warbler
black-and-white warbler
American redstart
prothonotary warbler
worm-eating warbler
ovenbird
northern waterthrush
common yellowthroat
Wilson's warbler
canada warbler
yellow-breasted chat
scarlet tanager
summer tanager
eastern towhee
chipping sparrow
field sparrow
savannah sparrow
song sparrow
swamp sparrow
white-crowned sparrow
white-throated sparrow
northern cardinal
rose-breasted grosbeak
blue grosbeak
indigo bunting
red-winged blackbird
common grackle
brown-headed cowbird
baltimore oriole
orchard oriole
house finch
American goldfinch
house sparrow
Marc Ribaudo
Woodbridge, VA
