Yesterday I reported on the highlights of our visits to a variety of different
sites in western Lo Co.
The following is the full report of what we saw & the general area where we saw
it. The following lists the birds (104 species) seen at the three locations
(plus the owling at the beginning & end) that Mary Ann Good and I visited
during the day. It is always fascinating what one misses (like Rock Pigeons
and my neighbor's Purple Martins which were there the day before & the day
after).
Joe Coleman, near Bluemont, VA
Some notes:
1) Laura Weidner & I started owling at 4:15 am. We found our first 2 BARRED
OWLS at about 4:30 am. They did a wonderful duet for us right over our heads.
We also had 2 more Barred Owls in another location but they were distant and no
where near as vocal. These birds are folded in w/the Wetlands.
2) Laura Weidner, Mary Ann Good & I next birded the Dulles Greenway Wetlands
Mitigation Project (DGWMP) with special permission from 5:30 am to 7:10 am.
3) Mary Ann Good and I then led a 10-person bird walk at the Blue Ridge Center
for Environmental Stewardship (BRCES) until about 1 pm (walked about 4 miles).
Mary Ann & I then wrapped up the area around the farm and the visitor center
until about 2 pm.
4) From about 3:30 pm until about 8:50 pm Mary Ann & I birded an area south of
Bluemont which roughly corresponded to Calmes Neck Sector 10 & the Loudoun Co
portion of Sector 12 (on the Blue Ridge on the east side of Blue Ridge Mtn Rd).
Laura Weidner joined us about 6 pm. The Barred Owl listed here was heard by
Mary Ann when she got home to Lincoln.
The results follow (the 1st column is for the DGWMP & the morning's owling, the
2nd column is for BRCES & the 3rd is the area south of Bluemont).
Great Blue Heron 1/0/1
Green Heron 4/1/1
Black Vulture 0/1/0
Turkey Vulture 0/12/5
Canada Goose 75/4/40
Wood Duck 20/0/1
Mallard 15/0/3
Bald Eagle 2 (1 sitting on the nest)/0/0
Cooper's Hawk 0/1/0
Red-shouldered Hawk 0/3/0
Red-tailed Hawk 0/2/1
Wild Turkey 0/1/0
Virginia Rail 3/0/0
Sora 2/0/0
Semipalmated Plover 4/0/0
Killdeer 6/0/0
Greater Yellowlegs 2/0/0
Lesser Yellowlegs 2/0/3
Solitary Sandpiper 35/0/0
Spotted Sandpiper 4/0/1
Semipalmated Sandpiper 20/0/0
Least Sandpiper 0/0/2
Pectoral Sandpiper 6/0/0
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove 0/2/5
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 2/6/2
Barred Owl 4/0/1
Eastern Screech Owl 0/0/2
Chimney Swift 0/0/3
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 0/1/1
Red-headed Woodpecker 0/0/2
Red-bellied Woodpecker 0/6/4
Downy Woodpecker 0/1/2
Hairy Woodpecker 0/1/2
Northern Flicker 0/1/4
Pileated Woodpecker 0/9/1
Eastern Wood-Peewee 0/7/2
Acadian Flycatcher 0/6/0
Willow Flycatcher 1/0/0
Eastern Phoebe 0/1/1
Great Crested Flycatcher 0/10/2
Eastern Kingbird 1/2/2
White-eyed Vireo 0/2/0
Yellow-throated Vireo 0/4/0
Red-eyed Vireo 0/20/6
Blue Jay 25/25/9
Am Crow 0/2/8
Fish Crow 0/1/4
Common Raven 0/2/0
Tree Swallow 4/17/6
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 0/1/0
Barn Swallow 2/3/15
Carolina Chickadee 1/3/3
Tufted Titmouse 1/4/3
White-breasted Nuthatch 0/3/2
Carolina Wren 0/3/1
House Wren 1/1/
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 0/32/0
Eastern Bluebird 1/1/11
Veery 0/1/0
Wood Thrush 0/22/8
Am. Robin 0/4/15
Gray Catbird 3/5/9
No Mockingbird 0/1/2
Brown Thrasher 2/0/1
European Starling 0/8/48
Cedar Waxwing 5/10/0
Blue-winged Warbler 0/7/0
Northern Parula 0/1/0
Yellow Warbler 4/1/1
Chestnut-sided Warbler 0/1/0
Magnolia Warbler 0/1/0
Black-throated Blue Warbler 0/1/1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 0/2/0
Black-throated Green Warbler 0/1/
Blackpoll Warbler 0/3/0
Cerulean Warbler 0/3/0
American Redstart 0/1/6
Worm-eating Warbler 0/2/0
Ovenbird 0/12/3
Louisiana Waterthrush 0/5/0
Kentucky Warbler 0/12/1
Common Yellowthroat 6/7/1
Hooded Warbler 0/1/0
Yellow-breasted Chat 0/2/1
Scarlet Tanager 0/10/2
Eastern Towhee 0/6/3
Chipping Sparrow 2/5/5
Field Sparrow 6/6/0
Grasshopper Sparrow 0/3/3
Song Sparrow 2/7/3
White-throated Sparrow 0/0/3
No Cardinal 2/6/6
Blue Grosbeak 0/0/1
Indigo Bunting 2/12/12
Bobolink 0/0/1
Red-winged Blackbird 125/1/16
Eastern Meadowlark 2/1/2
Common Grackle 0/2/4
Brown-headed Cowbird 0/17/4
Orchard Oriole 6/6/0
Baltimore Oriole 1/4/1
House Finch 0/0/5
Am. Goldfinch 10/28/13
House Sparrow 0/1/4
TOTAL INDIVIDUALS 422/431/346 = 1199
TOTAL SPECIES 42/79/67 = 104
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