Chris French, Jan Brutcher, Gene keefe, and Mary Floyd led a group of twenty
two birders at Huntley Meadows Park this morning from 0700 to 0930. The skies
were clear, the winds wer calm, and the temperature was warm. The highlights
were a Sora and a Virginia Rail. Many rats were seen foraging in the rushes;
each sighting of a rodent brought up the false cry, "Black Rail!" The
Blue-gray Gnatcatchers were in the trees, low in the canopy, in large numbers.
There were more birders than birds in the Park this morning.
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
Frederic D. Bogar
Alexandria, Virginia
703-768-3793
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