Four birders participated in this Sunday's walk. The highlights were 50
RUSTY BLACKBIRDS and 6 AMERICAN PIPITS. The Rusties were seen just south of
the
Visitors' Center foraging across the path from the picnic area. They were
subsequently encountered heading upstream (perhaps the same flock reported
yesterday from Riverbend Park). We found a lone AMERICAN PIPIT with an
injured leg
on our way back through the picnic area. Five more were found foraging in a
grassy margin across the road from the clay pond. Strong cold winds and a
swift, muddy river kept numbers down today. In Marshall Rawson's absence, I
agreed to compile today's list which follows:
D-C Cormorant 4
Great Blue Heron 1
Turkey Vulture 4
Canada Goose 8
Mallard 2
Ring-necked Duck 2
Common Merganser 2
Ring-billed Gull 30
Belted Kingfisher 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Downy Woodpecker 8
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Pileated Woodpecker 2
Eastern Phoebe 2
American Crow 12
Carolina Chickadee 30
Tufted Titmouse 15
White-breasted Nuthatch 2
Carolina Wren 4
Eastern Bluebird 14
American Robin 8
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 4
AMERICAN PIPIT 6
Dark-eyed Junco 3
Northern Cardinal 8
RUSTY BLACKBIRD 50
American Goldfinch 3
Ralph Wall
Great Falls, VA
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