[va-bird] Dyke marsh, 3/26

I led the Dyke Marsh walk this morning, and 16 attendees enjoyed some winter 
lingerers and a very few migrants.  Highlights were horned grebe (1 off the 
picnic area, 1 in the marina, and 1 off the boardwalk), pied-billed grebe (3 in 
the marina and 1 off the boardwalk), red-breasted merganser (4 in the cove near 
the dogleg), white-crowned sparrow (3 immatures near the bridge after the 
dogleg), brown creeper (2 at the start of the trail), and winter wren (1 along 
the trail).  We saw 49 species in all (list below).  

On my way to Dyke this morning I stopped at the overlook along the George 
Washington Parkway near Waynewood Blvd. to look for the red-headed woodpecker 
Bill McGovern mentioned yesterday.  Sure enough, shortly after entering the 
woods I heard tapping and found the red-headed in a dead tree.  

Dyke Marsh list
pied-billed grebe - 4
horned grebe - 3
double-crested cormorant - 3
great blue heron - 2
Canada goose - 10
wood duck - 2
mallard - 6
lesser scaup - 2
bufflehead - 3
red-breasted merganser - 4
common merganser - 9
osprey - 6
bald eagle - 4 (1a, 2im, 1unknown)
red-shouldered hawk - 1
american coot - 1
killdeer - 1
ring-billed gull - 3
herring gull - 1
great black-backed gull - 3
rock dove - 1
mourning dove - 5
red-bellied woodpecker - 3
downy woodpecker - 4
northern flicker - 2
tree swallow - 4
golden-crowned kinglet - 5
ruby-crowned kinglet - 1
carolina wren - 6
winter wren - 1
northern mockingbird - 2
American robin - 3
carolina chickadee - 4
turted titmouse - 4
brown creeper - 2
blue jay - 4
American crow - 1
fish crow - 50 (lots of these guys, in several flocks)
starling - 5
yellow-rumped warbler - 4
song sparrow - 12
swamp sparrow - 1
white-crowned sparrow - 3
white-throated sparrow - 6
northern cardinal - 8
red-winged blackbird - 20
common grackle - 1
brown-headed cowbird - 6
American goldfinch - 2
house sparrow - 4

Marc Ribaudo
Woodbridge, VA

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