VA BIRDers,
Ed Eder lead last Sunday's Dyke Marsh Field Trip - free to all each Sunday
at 0800 and sponsored by the Friends of Dyke Marsh. He reports his totals
below. Highlights were Horned Grebe, Osprey, Greater Yellowlegs, Brown
Creeper and Gray Catbird. A fine job Ed!
Kurt Gaskill
Sunday bird walk March 5 2005 plus canoe trip at D M March 5. 49
species
Horned Grebe 1 GBH 5 Turkey Vulture 2 Canada Goose 440 Wood
duck 2 American Black Duck 2 Mallard 20 Scaup species 85
Bufflehead 5 Common Merganser 24 Red Breasted Merganser 3
Osprey 3, Bald Eagle 5 Sharp shinned h 1 Cooper's Hawk 1 Red
tailed Hawk 1 American Coot 1 Kildeer 4 Greater Yellowlegs
1 Rock Dove 11 Mourning Dove 12 Belted kingfisher 2 Red
Bellied w. 2 Downy Woodpecker 3 Flicker 3 Ring billed gull
250 Black backed gull 12 Herring Gull 2 Blue Jay 3 American
Crow 3 Fish Crow 8 Carolina Chickadee 5 Tufted Titmouse 2
White breasted Nuthatch 1 Brown Creeper 2 Carolina Wren 5
Golden Crowned kinglet 1 American Robin 2 Gray Catbird 2
Northern mockingbird 1 Starling 88 Eastern Towhee 2 Song
Sparrrow2 9 White throated Sp 21 Swamp Sparrow 1 Northern
Cardinal 15 House Finch 9 Goldfinch 4 House Sparrow 3
