Four birders joined me for the last Friends of Dyke Marsh-sponsored Sunday
morning walk of the calendar year. The walks do not take place during the
Christmas Bird Count season (Dec 14- Jan 5). The first Sunday morning walk
of 2018 will be January 7.
It was sparrow heaven today with six Fox Sparrows foraging (with one briefly
singing) together with White-throated and Song Sparrows just south of the
open area that we call Dead Beaver Beach on Haul Road. The group observed
several waterfowl species, with a flock of 59 Hooded Mergansers in and just
south of the Little Gut (the little body south of the Haul Road Peninsula)
and nearly two dozen Green-winged Teal near the mudflats near Hunting Creek.
A small flock of Lesser Scaup and Horned Grebes have been hanging out
together in the Little Gut for the third straight week.
Dyke Marsh Wildlife Preserve, Fairfax, Virginia, US Dec 10, 2017 8:04 AM -
10:54 AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.3 mile(s)
44 species (+1 other taxa)
Canada Goose 150
Gadwall 3
Mallard 120
American Black Duck 11
Green-winged Teal 20
Lesser Scaup 3
Bufflehead 5
Hooded Merganser 59
Pied-billed Grebe 1
Horned Grebe 2
Double-crested Cormorant 50
Great Blue Heron (Blue form) 10
Bald Eagle 4
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
American Coot 33
Ring-billed Gull 500
Herring Gull 5
Great Black-backed Gull 7
Mourning Dove 28
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2
Downy Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker 8
Eastern Phoebe 1
Blue Jay 8
American Crow 1
Fish Crow 8
crow sp. 3
Carolina Chickadee 5
Tufted Titmouse 2
Winter Wren 1
Carolina Wren 7
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 3
Northern Mockingbird 2
European Starling 30
Fox Sparrow 6
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) 1
White-throated Sparrow 45
Song Sparrow 30
Swamp Sparrow 1
Eastern Towhee 1
Northern Cardinal 12
Red-winged Blackbird 12
House Finch 15
American Goldfinch 11
House Sparrow 5
View this checklist online at
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S41008665
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Larry Cartwright
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