Yesterday (9/9/04)I was down in the Leedstown
area of the Northern Neck from about 10 AM to
about 5 PM. The Rappahannock River levels were
very high and there were a lot of shorebirds in a
couple of the plowed fields. It was very windy
and I saw very few passerines. Highlights were
bobolinks, swallows, hawks, and shorebirds.
Here are the totals for the day.
Great Blue Heron 6
Green Heron 2
Coopers Hawk 3 (1 chasing cowbirds
unsuccessfully)
Red-tailed Hawk 2
MERLIN 1 chasing a swallow unsuccessfully
Kestrel 2
Bald Eagle: 2 adult, 6 immmature
osprey 2
turkey vulture 9
black vulture 25
Wood Duck 5
Black-bellied PLover 3 (my first in the County)
Golden Plover 2 flew over at Mothershead of
RRVNWR
Killdeer 178
Semipalmated Plover 1
Ruddy turnstone 1 (my first in the county)
Pectoral Sandpiper 1
Baird's sandpiper 1 (my first in the county, is
it same bird as seen by Sue Heath on Saturday?)
Semipalmated sandpiper 2
Least sandpiper about 25
Solitary sandpiper 2
searched hard but could not find buff-breasteds
or phalaropes
Forster's Tern 6
Laughing Gull 8
Ring-billed Gull 3
Bob-white 3
mourning dove 60 (dove season starts today)
Red-bellied Woodpecker 5
Red-headed Woodpecker 1
Yellow-shafted flicker 1
Pileated woodpecker 1
Downy Woodpecker 2
Ruby-throated hummingbird 3
Chimney swift 3
phoebe 1
wood pewee 4
great crested flycatcher 3
Tree Swallows 955
Barn Swallows 55
Bank Swallow 40
N. Rough-winged swallow 15
no martins or cliff swallows
mockingbird 18
catbird 2
eastern bluebird 19
blue-gray gnatcatcher 3
carolina wren 8
carolina chickadee 4
tufted titmouse 3
blue jay 3
american crow 70
red-eyed vireo 2
white-eyed vireo 5
common yellowthroat 12
bobolink 52 (mostly in planted milo)
cowbird 625
starling 25
red-winged blackbird 15
blue grosbeak 16 (mostly in planted milo)
indigo bunting 11
chipping sparrow 24
field sparrow 5
grasshopper sparrow 1
song sparrow 2
summer tanager 2
scarlet tanager 1
baltimore oriole 3
cardinal 18
goldfinch 40
house finch 5
house sparrow 5
All the best
Fred
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Frederick D. Atwood fredatwood@xxxxxxxxx
Flint Hill School, 10409 Academic Dr, Oakton, VA 22124
703-242-1675
http://www.agpix.com/fredatwood
http://www.flinthill.org
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