[va-bird] Waterfowl on the Potomac, at last!

VA-Birders,
Grateful to Steve Williams for alerting us to the "bonanza" of waterfowl on the Potomac, Sharon Lynn and I stopped at all the pull offs along the GW Parkway south of Alexandria between Riverside Park and the Collingwood picnic area yesterday and today, Jan 28-29. Tom Albright joined us today. This was the best diversity with the highest numbers I have seen in Northern Virginia for a long time, this winter season having been pretty lackluster until now.
We did not keep numbers. Many birds were on the water on stretches of the river where we could not stop to identify them, but numbers were in the hundreds for many of the ducks. Interesting birds seen from the GW Parkway over the last two days include: 

Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Tundra Swan
Gadwall
American Wigeon
American Black Duck
Mallard
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Bald Eagle
Red-shouldered Hawk
American Coot
Eastern Bluebird
Yellow-rumped Warbler

Notable additions at Dyke Marsh were:

Belted Kingfisher
Pileated Woodpecker
Winter Wren
Gray Catbird
Rusty Blackbird

Paula Sullivan
Alexandria





You are subscribed to VA-BIRD. To post to this mailing list, simply send email 
to va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe, send email to
va-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field.

Other related posts: