[nnasnet] Fall hikes with a few birds
- From: "joandboys" <joandboys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "nnasnet" <nnasnet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 18:26:15 GMT
Happy Thanksgiving, Everyone~
Sometimes on a 96-degree, 96% humidity day in the middle of July, I wonder
why I live in Tidewater Virginia...then October arrives, and I remember why!
Had some ideal-weather hikes this fall, at Spotsylvania NMP, where myriads of
bluebirds in dull fall colors swooped over the battlefields and pileated
woodpeckers screeched at the forest edges, and a bright, red-orange vixen
watched me from the corner of the trail ahead. Two weeks later at First Landing
SP in Norfolk, myrtle warblers were in amazing abundance along the sandy
paths...also spotted a few downy woodpeckers, field sparrows, northern flickers
and a lovely great white egret stalking through a Broad Bay marsh. At Dameron's
Marsh, I finally saw the great horned owl that Tom S. has mentioned often, and
yesterday at Westmoreland SP, I saw several downies, two lovely hermit
thrushes, a zillion robins, a pileated woodpecker and unexpectedly, a lone
mourning cloak butterfly making its way across a sunny meadow.
At the feeder, we have lots of cardinals and white-throated sparrows,
chickadees and titmice, a juncoe or two, and English sparrows as well. Hoping
like crazy the painted bunting returns again this winter!
Joanne C.
Wicomico Church
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