[va-bird] Birds Seen at the Blue Ridge Center (Loudon Co) June24

9 people defied the weather forecast to participate in the Loudoun Wildlife
Conservancy's regular monthly (every 4th Saturday) bird walk at the Blue
Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship in northwestern Loudoun County
this morning.  The group walked the Farm Loop Trail which includes meadows,
woods, and a pond. Contrary to the forecast (prediction is a more accurate
term), there was no rain.
 
The highlights of the 59 species observed during the morning included well
seen KENTUCKY & BLUE-WINGED WARBLERS, & YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT.
 
Visitors are welcome at the Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship
and info. on it can be found at
<http://www.blueridgecenter.org/directions.html>.   Information on the
Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy can be found at <www.loudounwildlife.org>.

The complete list of species observed and their approximate numbers are as
follows:

 Great Blue Heron  4
 Green Heron  1   
 Turkey Vulture  8 
 Canada Goose  3   
 Red-shouldered Hawk  1
 Rock Dove  4   
 Mourning Dove  4  
 Yellow-billed Cuckoo  3
 Chimney Swift  2  
 Red-bellied Woodpecker  3
 Downy Woodpecker  7
 Northern Flicker  3
 Pileated Woodpecker  2
 Eastern Wood-Pewee  3
 Acadian Flycatcher  10
 Eastern Phoebe  2 
 Great Crested Flycatcher  1
 Eastern Kingbird  4
 White-eyed Vireo  2
 Yellow-throated Vireo  3
 Red-eyed Vireo  12
 Blue Jay  8   
 American Crow  15 
 Tree Swallow  25  
 Barn Swallow  10  
 Carolina Chickadee  8
 Tufted Titmouse  5
 White-breasted Nuthatch  3
 Carolina Wren  6  
 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  3
 Eastern Bluebird  10
 Wood Thrush  5   
 Northern Mockingbird  2
 Brown Thrasher  1 
 European Starling  8
 Cedar Waxwing  3  
 Blue-winged Warbler  3
 American Redstart  1
 Ovenbird  1   
 Kentucky Warbler  2
 Common Yellowthroat  10
 Hooded Warbler  1 
 Yellow-breasted Chat  6
 Scarlet Tanager  3
 Eastern Towhee  3 
 Chipping Sparrow  6
 Field Sparrow  9  
 Grasshopper Sparrow  1
 Song Sparrow  1   
 Northern Cardinal  5
 Blue Grosbeak  2  
 Indigo Bunting  20
 Red-winged Blackbird  14
 Eastern Meadowlark  2
 Common Grackle  4 
 Brown-headed Cowbird  1
 Orchard Oriole  2 
 American Goldfinch  12
 House Sparrow  1  

-- 
Elliot Kirschbaum
Shepherdstown, WV
kingfisher500 at adelphia dot net

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