VA-Birders,
The Hampton Roads Bird Club explored two areas of the Newport News Park system
on Sat, 5/13, that are located in adjacent York County (Grafton area between
Tabb and Yorktown). The spots are located at the end of Darby Rd off Rt 17 and
on Oriana Rd near the Harwood Mill Reservoir parking lot. We got permission to
drive into both areas for the field trip, but you can park by the locked gate
any time and explore by foot. These are parts of the sector I cover for the
Christmas and spring bird counts, and they have an abundance of birds in the
spring.
12 members participated, and we tallied 66 species between 7:30 am and 1:00 pm.
A complete list is included below.
Highlights of birds seen at Darby Rd were BLACK-THROATED BLUE, MAGNOLIA and
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, RED-EYED VIREO, ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK and a pair of
SUMMER TANAGER.
On Oriana Rd everyone had great looks at a GREAT-CRESTED FLYCATCHER, EASTERN
KINGBIRD, INDIGO BUNTING AND WHITE-EYED VIREO. Several of us also saw PRAIRIE
WARBLER, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, RED-SHOULDERED HAWK and FIELD SPARROW. The last
species we recorded, a pair of EASTERN BLUEBIRDS, was a great ending to a very
productive morning.
Meredith Bell
Field Trip Coordinator
Hampton Roads Bird Club
merandlee@xxxxxxx
Canada Goose 2
Mallard 4
Northern Bobwhite 2
Great Blue Heron 2
Turkey Vulture 4
Osprey 5
Red-shouldered Hawk 2
Red-tailed Hawk 2
Killdeer 4
Laughing Gull 3
Mourning Dove 5
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker 3
Downy Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker 1
Pileated Woodpecker 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee 1
Acadian Flycatcher 1
Great Crested Flycatcher 3
Eastern Kingbird 1
White-eyed Vireo 4
Red-eyed Vireo 9
Blue Jay 4
American Crow 7
Fish Crow 4
Purple Martin 2
Tree Swallow 1
Carolina Chickadee 9
Tufted Titmouse 5
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
Carolina Wren 5
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 4
Eastern Bluebird 2
Wood Thrush 2
American Robin 9
Gray Catbird 1
Northern Mockingbird 2
European Starling 6
Northern Parula 2
Yellow Warbler 1
Magnolia Warbler 1
Black-throated Blue Warbler 5
Pine Warbler 3
Prairie Warbler 4
Blackpoll Warbler 1
American Redstart 2
Prothonotary Warbler 1
Ovenbird 4
Common Yellowthroat 6
Hooded Warbler 1
Yellow-breasted Chat 4
Summer Tanager 2
Scarlet Tanager 3
Eastern Towhee 3
Field Sparrow 2
Song Sparrow 1
Northern Cardinal 6
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 2
Blue Grosbeak 5
Indigo Bunting 8
Common Grackle 24
Brown-headed Cowbird 3
House Finch 2
American Goldfinch 8
House Sparrow 2
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2 (http://www.ebird.org)
