I had a very nice walk around parts of Occoquan NWR this morning. Little wind
and cool temps. Lots of sparrows, with 8 species seen (song, swamp, savannah,
field, tree, fox, white-throated, dark-eyed junco, and eastern towhee). One
american pipit flew over while I was scanning the Occoquan River. In the
Occoquan and Belmont Bay were all three merganser species, 1 female goldeneye,
bufflehead, gadwall, mallard, black duck, and a massive raft of lesser scaup.
Raptors were represented by bald eagle, harrier (with a vole), red-tailed,
red-shoulder, and sharp-shinned. Other goodies were 5 meadowlarks, several
winter wrens, creeper, and golden-crowned kinglet. In all I found 56 species.
Here is the list:
great blue heron
canada goose
gadwall
mallard
black duck
lesser scaup
common goldeneye
bufflehead
hooded merganser
red-breasted merganser
common merganser
turkey vulture
bald eagle
northern harrier
sharp-shinned hawk
red-shouldered hawk
red-tailed hawk
ring-billed gull
great black-backed gull
herring gull
rock dove
mourning dove
belted kingfisher
red-bellied woodpecker
downy woodpecker
hairy woodpecker
northern flicker
pileated woodpecker
american pipit
golden-crowned kinglet
carolina wren
winter wren
northern mockingbird
eastern bluebird
carolina chickadee
tufted titmouse
white-breasted nuthatch
brown creeper
blue jay
american crow
fish crow
starling
eastern towhee
tree sparrow
field sparrow
savannah sparrow
fox sparrow
song sparrow
swamp sparrow
white-throated sparrow
dark-eyed junco
northern cardinal
red-winged blackbird
eastern meadowlark
american goldfinch
house sparrow
Marc Ribaudo
Woodbridge, VA
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