Birders,
Apologies for the late post. We're gearing up for our spring festival this
Saturday and things are pretty hectic.
SCHEDULE NOTES:
***There will NOT be a bird walk at 9 this Saturday because of the festival.
Instead I'm leading a "Bird Walk for Beginners" at 10, appropriate for
non-birders and novice birders.***
**The April bird walks will return to normal schedule on the 29th, meeting
at the Visitor Center at 9.
**Then starting in May we switch to the summer schedule, with bird walks on
the first and third Saturdays each month, still from 9 to 11am. For May of
course that means bird walks on the 6th and 20th.
At any rate, Dexter Hinckley, Anna and Ross Goddard, and Jon joined me on
the 15th for the weekly bird walk. We enjoyed gorgeous weather as well as
cooperative migrants, the highlights being a BROWN THRASHER
(first-of-season), several BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHERS (also first-of-season),
and a NORTHERN PARULA who came down to some lower sycamore branches to show
off for us. The group split up for the second half of the walk, so not all
species were seen by all participants. Species list follows, with an
appended list of other species I saw or heard on my way into the park that
morning.
Great Blue Heron
Canada Goose
Lesser Scaup
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Greater Yellowlegs
Caspian Tern
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
Hermit Thrush
Brown Thrasher
European Starling
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Northern Parula
Chipping Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
*Additional species seen prior to walk*
Mourning Dove
Tree Swallow (pair checking out a bluebird box)
Crow sp.
Am. Robin
Ovenbird (first of season; heard)
Dark-eyed Junco
Good birding,
Jodi Bucknam
Park Interpreter
Mason Neck State Park
7301 High Point Rd.
Lorton, VA 22079
703-339-2380
mninterpreter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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