[va-bird] Dyke Marsh - 9/29

Given the forecast of north winds last night, we had high hopes for neotrops 
at the weekly Friends of Dyke Marsh walk.  No such luck.  We had exactly two 
warblers, a palm and an early yellow-rump.  Other highlights included lots of 
waterfowl, an early junco and swamp sparrow, and the 2 moorhens.  List 
follows (numbers are very approximate):

pied-billed grebe 40+
cormorant 10
ruddy duck 15
Canada goose 50
wood duck 8

mallard 30
blue-winged teal 10
shoveler 200
ring-neck duck 1 (Firestone)
great blue heron  60

great egret 80
osprey 3
bald eagle 1 (immature)
red-shoulder 2 (an adult and an immature)
common moorhen 1

coot 25
greater yellowlegs 1
lesser yellowlegs 1 (also a dozen distant yellowlegs sp.)
spotted sandpiper 2
ring-billed gull yes

great black-back 5
herring 1
laughing 1
Caspian tern 20
Forster's tern 40

rock dove yes
morning dove yes
swift 7
kingfisher 2
red-bellied woodpecker 5

downy 3
flicker 4
pewee 1
blue jay yes
American crow yes

robin 40
catbird 2
mockingbird 1
starling yes
white-breasted nut 2

Carolina wren 10
swallow sp. 1 (probably rough-wing)
chickadee 12
titmouse 5
goldfinch 15

house finch 12
yellow-rumped warbler 1
palm warbler 1
song sparrow 1
swamp sparrow 1

junco 1
cardinal yes
waxwing 2
red-winged BB yes
grackle yes

This morning I had only two black-throated blues and a tanager in White Oaks 
Park.

Ben Jesup
Alexandria


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