Gentle Readers,
Chris French led a group of eighteen birders this morning, 5/9/2005, at Huntley
Meadows Park on the regularly scheduled Monday Morning Birdwalk from 0700 to
1000. Although the warblers are still present in the Park, the appearance of
Ruby-throated Hummingbirds signals the rapid approach of summer. For a second
week in a row, Blue Grosbeak were seen at HMP. Large flights of Blue Jays and
also a flock of Bobolinks were seen over what remains of the Central Pond.
Central Pond is too grandiose for the name of the great muddy field, which is
all that remains of the abandoned beaver pond.
Number Common Name
2 Great Blue Heron
2 Great Egret
1 Green Heron
2 Turkey Vulture
87 Canada Goose
8 Wood Duck
2 American Black Duck
11 Mallard
7 Hooded Merganser
2 Osprey
1 Red-shouldered Hawk
1 Greater Yellowlegs
11 Lesser Yellowlegs
3 Solitary Sandpiper
2 Spotted Sandpiper
28 Least Sandpiper
1 Pectoral Sandpiper
6 Laughing Gull
1 Mourning Dove
3 Yellow-billed Cuckoo
2 Barred Owl
7 Chimney Swift
1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1 Belted Kingfisher
1 Red-headed Woodpecker
10 Red-bellied Woodpecker
2 Downy Woodpecker
1 Northern Flicker
1 Pileated Woodpecker
3 Eastern Wood-Pewee
4 Acadian Flycatcher
5 Eastern Phoebe
4 Great Crested Flycatcher
4 Eastern Kingbird
25 Tree Swallow
2 Northern Rough-winged Swallow
20 Barn Swallow
51 Blue Jay
5 American Crow
5 Carolina Chickadee
9 Tufted Titmouse
4 White-breasted Nuthatch
3 Carolina Wren
5 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
6 Eastern Bluebird
1 American Robin
2 Gray Catbird
2 European Starling
1 White-eyed Vireo
15 Red-eyed Vireo
1 Blue-winged Warbler
1 Tennessee Warbler
2 Northern Parula
1 Yellow Warbler
2 Black-throated Green Warbler
2 Blackpoll Warbler
2 Black-and-white Warbler
3 American Redstart
6 Ovenbird
12 Common Yellowthroat
6 Scarlet Tanager
15 Northern Cardinal
1 Blue Grosbeak
1 Song Sparrow
2 Swamp Sparrow
5 White-throated Sparrow
6 Bobolink
120 Common Grackle
2 Brown-headed Cowbird
1 Baltimore Oriole
101 Red-winged Blackbird
32 American Goldfinch
Huntley Meadows Park can be reached from the Beltway by driving south on US
Route 1 approximately three miles to Lockheed Boulevard. Turn right on
Lockheed Boulevard and proceed to the intersection of Lockheed and Harrison
Lane. The Park entrance is on the left.
The regularly scheduled Monday Morning Birdwalk is open to all; the group meets
at 0700 in the Visitor's Center Parking Lot.
For information about this and other programs at Huntley Meadows Park, please
call the Staff at 703-768-2525.
Frederic D. Bogar
703-768-3793
Alexandria, VA
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