Gentle Readers,
Ann Bogar and Barry Pearson led a group of seven very cold birders on Monday,
December 27, 2004, at Huntley Meadows Park. It was a cold and windy morning
from 0700 to 0900. The best bird of the day may well have been a Brown Creeper
seen in the woods past the Tower.
Number Common Name
3 Canada Goose
1 Red-shouldered Hawk
5 Killdeer
128 Ring-billed Gull
1 Barred Owl
5 Red-bellied Woodpecker
2 Downy Woodpecker
3 Northern Flicker
1 Pileated Woodpecker
6 Blue Jay
30 American Crow
1 Fish Crow
12 Carolina Chickadee
24 Tufted Titmouse
6 White-breasted Nuthatch
1 Brown Creeper
2 Carolina Wren
1 Winter Wren
12 Northern Cardinal
1 Eastern Towhee
15 Field Sparrow
24 Song Sparrow
6 Swamp Sparrow
50 White-throated Sparrow
20 Dark-eyed Junco
58 Red-winged Blackbird
10 American Goldfinch
Huntley Meadows Park can be reached from the Beltway by driving south on US
Route 1 approximately three miles to Lockheed Boulevard. Turn right on
Lockheed Boulevard and proceed to the intersection of Lockheed and Harrison
Lane. The Park entrance is on the left.
The regularly scheduled Monday Morning Birdwalk is open to all; the group meets
at 0700 in the Visitor's Center Parking Lot.
For information about this and other programs at Huntley Meadows Park, please
call the Staff at 703-768-2525.
Frederic D. Bogar
Park Volunteer
703-768-3793
Alexandria, VA
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