Thank you, Gentle Readers of this Weekly Report from Huntley Meadows Park, for
telling me that I do not know a Rat from a Vole on the ground.
Monday morning, April 26, 2004, Harry Glasgow, Gene Keefe and Mary Floyd led a
group of thirteen birders on the regularly scheduled birdwalk on a cloudy,
slightly windy and cool day. The warblers have arrived in the Park in large
numbers. The Sora is still strutting his stuff right out in the open for all
to see. The Virginia Rail and the very mythical Black Rail are not to be seen.
No Meadow Voles were seen.
Number Common Name
2 Great Blue Heron
2 Great Egret
1 Green Heron
24 Canada Goose
3 Green-winged Teal
1 American Black Duck
8 Mallard
2 Hooded Merganser
1 Red-shouldered Hawk
1 Virginia Rail
1 Sora
1 Greater Yellowlegs
3 Ring-billed Gull
3 Mourning Dove
2 Chimney Swift
2 Red-bellied Woodpecker
3 Downy Woodpecker
1 Eastern Bluebird
1 Pileated Woodpecker
1 Eastern Phoebe
2 Tree Swallow
3 Barn Swallow
1 Blue Jay
2 American Crow
2 Carolina Chickadee
4 Tufted Titmouse
8 Carolina Wren
1 Golden-crowned Kinglet
4 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
18 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1 Northern Mockingbird
1 Brown Thrasher
4 European Starling
1 Blue-headed Vireo
1 Red-eyed Vireo
4 Yellow-rumped Warbler
1 Black-and-white Warbler
10 Common Yellowthroat
2 Scarlet Tanager
5 Northern Cardinal
1 Eastern Towhee
2 Chipping Sparrow
4 Song Sparrow
2 Swamp Sparrow
16 White-throated Sparrow
3 Rusty Blackbird
4 Common Grackle
42 Red-winged Blackbird
4 American Goldfinch
3 American Robin
Huntley Meadows Park can be reached from the Beltway by driving south
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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