[va-richmond-general] RAS Field Trip: Curles Neck Farm, March 12, 2006
- From: John Caroline Coe <johncaroline@xxxxxxxx>
- To: va-richmond-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 15:36:02 -0500
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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