The winds were calm as the sun rose over the Potomac this morning to greet
the assembled Dyke Marsh walkers...Common Mergansers dotted the bay off
Bellehaven Picnic area and we were off...winds picked up as the sun rose, and
dark clouds turned our sunny skies gray and the temp. to fall as the weather,
feeling obligated to conform, fell in line with some computer-generated image
that was proabably conceived the night before by a meteorologist, morose
after being dumped by his girlfriend who had suddenly decided that
sportscasters were more to her liking. Sparrows and songbirds suffered as a
result - hunkering down, waiting for the ill-directed ire to subside so that
they once again might fly free and happy. We did manage to squeak out 45
species today w/ some fun birds...Common Loon, one lone Eagle, a Brown
Creeper and Mr and Mrs Pileated...
If you're in the area, please feel free to join us. We're every Sunday, 8am
at the first (South) parking lot at BelleHaven, one mile south of Old Town
Alexandria, just of the GW Parkway. Here's what we saw today:
Common Loon - 1
PB Grebe - 8
GB Heron - 20
C. Goose - 200
GW Teal - 36
Am. Black Duck - 6
Mallard - 200
Ring-necked Duck - Firestone was there
Lesser Scaup - a couple (thousand)
Bufflehead - 3
Common Merganser - 30
TV - 1
Bald EAgle - 1 (imm)
Am. Coot - 200
RB Gull - 100's
Herring Gull - 2
GBB Gull - 12
Rock Dove -1
MoDo - 5
Belted Kingfisher - 1
RB Woodpecker - 6
Downy WP - 4
Hairy WP - 3
No. Flicker - 2
Pileated WP - 2
Blue Jay - 6
Am. Crow - lots
Fish Crow - 3
Car. Chickadee - 18
T. Titmouse- 12
Brown Creeper - 1
Carolina Wren - 8
Winter Wren - 1
Am Robin - 5
No. Mockingbird - 3
E. Starling - 50
No. Cardinal - 10
Fox Sparrow - 1
Song Sparrow - 2
Swamp Sparrow - 1
WT Sparrow - 6
RW Blackbird - 30
House Finch - 12
AM Goldfinch - 2
House Sparrow - 12
List also submitted to Great Backyard Bird Count - visit www.birdsource.org
for more info...
Y'all be careful out there...Rich Rieger
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