[va-richmond-general] Re: Ginter Trip report

Tyler--  I had a great egret and belted kingfisher last year (6/04) at
LGBG.  A Cooper's hawk has been prowling our northside neighborhood this
week, terrorizing backyard feeders.

Jerry Uhlman
flyways@xxxxxxxxx

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Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 12:20 PM
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Subject: [va-richmond-general] Ginter Trip report

10 birders attended the August 26th trip to Lewis Ginter Botanical
Gardens.=
 The lake behind the Bloomendal House has been refilled so there were a
lot=
 of birds in the trees on the golf course adjoining the other side of
the l=
ake. 26 species were seen. The lake was drained with only the creek
running=
 in the middle of it for so many months a bunch of weeds grew in the
lakebe=
d. These may provide some good cover for waterfowl in the Fall if they
do n=
ot decompose in the filled up lake before the migrating waterfowl
arrive. M=
any common species were not seen. The highlights were a pair of Brown
Thras=
hers and a Gray Catbird in the same tree, a few juvenile bluebirds of a
fir=
st nest of the year, A Blue Gray Gnatcatcher, an Eastern Wood-Peewee,
femal=
e Yellow Warbler and a Great Crested Flycatcher were all within 30 feet
of =
each other at the same time on the golf course side of the lake. One of
the=
 adult Green Herons from the pair that nests at the Gardens was seen in
the=
 irrigation pond where it has been seen on several other trips. The pair
ha=
d two young hatch and survive this year. We saw the two young birds
flying =
over the main lake and eventually perch in some trees. These two were
only =
spotted when a Great Blue Heron was seen flying from a tree-lined area
of t=
he lake shore as the group was leaving the lake area so the group
returned =
to see the heron and the two young Green Herons flew in .This is the
second=
 year Green Herons have successfully breed at Ginter Gardens.

A staff member reported seeing a Cooper's Hawk earlier in the week on
the g=
rounds that caught and ate a squirrel. When was the last time (please
list =
year and month if possible) someone saw a Great Egret or a Belted
Kingfishe=
r at Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens. Neither species has been seen on an
Au=
dubon society trip to the Gardens this year.

Sincerely,=20
Tyler Turpin

There are a bunch of Great Egrets in the swamp next to I-95 between the
Rou=
te 10 and Temple Avenue Exits. There is a large flock of Cormorants and
two=
 Osprey that hatched this year still hanging around their nest buoy but
cat=
ching and eating fish on their own now that their parents migrated a few
we=
eks ago visable from the shoreline part  the City Point National Park
site =
in Hopewell. Some Spotted Sandpipers and Yellowlegs have been seen there
to=
o.

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