[va-bird] Dyke Marsh walk for 10 December

Six birders joined me for the last scheduled walk at Dyke Marsh for 2006. The 
walks are suspended during the Christmas Bird Count season and resume again 7 
January 2007. 

All three merganser species were present during the walk, including 3 Common 
Mergansers reported by Kurt Gaskill.  Both species of kinglets were observed 
and these little dynamos put on quite a show. We also had great views of 
Red-shouldered Hawks. Besides the kinglets, other winter visitors, including 
Brown Creepers, Winter Wrens, and Swamp Sparrows have settled in. Kurt Gaskill 
tallied a wintering Gray Catbird as well. The entire list of today's sighting 
follows:

Canada Goose     750
American Black Duck   4
Mallard                 160
Bufflehead             5
Hooded Merganser   14  (half drakes, half hens)

Common Merganser    3 (hens)
Red-breasted Merganser    19   (hens)
Ruddy Duck                1
Pied-billed Grebe         6
Horned Grebe            1

Double-crested Cormorant   1
Great Blue Heron             15
Bald Eagle                  2
Red-shouldered Hawk    3
Killdeer                      1

Ring-billed Gull          700
Herring Gull                15
Great Black-backed Gull    24
Mourning Dove             105
Belted Kingfisher           4

Red-bellied Woodpecker   4
Downy Woodpecker        3
Hairy Woodpecker          7
Northern Flicker           3
Pileated Woodpecker    1

Blue Jay                 10
American Crow         2
Fish Crow                1
    crow sp                1
Carolina Chickadee    12
Tufted Titmouse          2

White-breasted Nuthatch  2
Brown Creeper          2
Carolina Wren      14
Winter Wren           7
Golden-crowned Kinglet   8

Ruby-crowned Kinglet    4
American Robin           6
Gray Catbird               1
Northern Mockingbird   6
European Starling       80

Song Sparrow             25
Swamp Sparrow           6
White-throated Sparrow  80
Northern Cardinal         16
Red-winged Blackbird    30

House Finch                       2
American Goldfinch              30
House Sparrow                    10

Larry Cartwright
prowarbler@xxxxxxxxxxx

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