[va-richmond-general] Re: RED-HEADED WOODPECKER at Robious Landing Park

  • From: "Doug Sinclair" <d.b.sinclair@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <va-richmond-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 11:29:43 -0500

Sandra and I call Robious Landing Park "Woodpecker Alley."  We see
Red-headed and Red-bellied almost every time we go.  

We actually saw our first "flock" of Downy's - a gathering of a dozen or so
all socializing and busy in one bush along the new path.

Doug Sinclair 

 

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Subject: [va-richmond-general] RED-HEADED WOODPECKER at Robious Landing Park

 

Ten participants on Richmond Audubon's Second Wednesday Walk to Robious
Landing Park were treated to a RED-HEADED WOODPECKER in the parking lot.  

 

Other species

 

Pied-billed Grebe

Double-crested Cormorant

Turkey Vulture

Wood Ducks - 10 or so on the river

Mourning Dove

 

Red-headed Woodpecker

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Downy Woodpecker

Eastern Phoebe

Blue Jay

 

American Crow

Carolina Chickadee

Tufted Titmouse

White-breasted Nuthatch

Brown Creeper (reported by the Kaulfers party)

 

Carolina Wren

Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Eastern Bluebird

Pine Warbler

Dark-eyed Junco

 

Northern Cardinal

American Goldfinch

 

Robious Landing Park is described at
http://www.dgif.state.va.us/wildlife/vbwt/site.asp?trail=1
<http://www.dgif.state.va.us/wildlife/vbwt/site.asp?trail=1&site=CRI13&loop=
CRI> &site=CRI13&loop=CRI

 

 

Wendy Ealding

Chesterfield County

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