[va-bird] Huntley -- Merlin, woodcock

From: "Pam Koger-Jesup and Ben Jesup" <breep@xxxxxxx>
To: "Va-Bird" <va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "MaryBeth and Jim Mathews" <marybethmathews@xxxxxxx>, <nitpickers@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 16:31:03 -0400

The rain ended just early enough to convince me to get out of bed, and I'm
glad I did.  It was a nice morning on the Hike/Bike Trail, particularly if
you were a raptor.  A merlin was eating something smallish in the "flicker
tree" in the field to the right of the platform.  (Wish I had brought my
scope . . . .)  I also saw it flying around several times.  Maybe it will
stick around for a while.  I also saw a Coop twice carrying something big (a
flicker?).  The other highlight was twice flushing woodcock to the left of
the platform.  Really good numbers of kinglets, too.  Other notables:

 

Wood duck 3

RS hawk 1

Flicker 15 (alive)

Hermit thrust 2

Yellow-rump 9

Palm 2 (yellow)

Song sparrow 18

Swamp 4

White-throated 35

Junco 6

Chipping 4

Field 5

Towhee 1

 

Ben Jesup

Alexandria

[va-bird] Huntley -- Merlin, woodcock

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