[va-richmond-general] RAS Field Trip: Curles Neck Farm, March 12, 2006

It was a fantastic morning with gently warming temperatures, a large
turnout of birders and a great showing of birds, including a Great-horned
Owl on the nest with 3 down-covered young.  Curles Neck Farm lived up to
expectations - its diverse field, grassland, shrub, pond, wetlands and
river habitats provided us with the list of birds below.

This list represents the birds we saw or heard  - we await any additions
others saw that we missed!

Double-crested Cormorant 
Great Blue Heron 
Black Vulture 
Turkey Vulture 
Snow Goose (both phases) 

Canada Goose 
Wood Duck 
Gadwall 
American Black Duck 
Mallard

Blue-winged Teal 
Northern Shoveler 
Green-winged Teal 
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead 

Hooded Merganser 
Common Merganser 
Ruddy Duck 
Osprey 
Bald Eagle 

Northern Harrier 
Cooper?s Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk 
American Kestrel 
American Coot 

Killdeer 
Wilson's Snipe 
Ring-billed Gull 
Mourning Dove 
Great Horned Owl (on nest with 3 owlets)

Belted Kingfisher 
Red-bellied Woodpecker 
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker 

Pileated Woodpecker 
Eastern Phoebe 
Blue Jay 
American Crow 
Horned Lark 

Tree Swallow 
Carolina Chickadee 
Tufted Titmouse 
White-breasted Nuthatch 
Brown Creeper 

Carolina Wren 
Winter Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet 
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 
Eastern Bluebird 

American Robin 
Northern Mockingbird 
Brown Thrasher 
European Starling 
Yellow-rumped Warbler 

Pine Warbler
Palm Warbler
Common Yellowthroat 
Rufous-sided Towhee
Field Sparrow 

Savannah Sparrow 
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow 
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow 

White-crowned Sparrow 
Dark-eyed Junco 
Northern Cardinal 
Red-winged Blackbird 
Eastern Meadowlark 

Common Grackle 
House Finch 
American Goldfinch 


John & Caroline Coe
Chesterfield County
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