Gentle Readers,
Harry Glasgow, Mary Floyd, and Gene Keefe led a group of 18 birders at Huntley
Meadows Park this morning from 0700 to 0915. The skies were sunny; the wind
was calm; and it was warm today, May 17, 2004. A Bobolink was reported by a
passing photographer, but the Common Moorhen was the featured bird of the
morning. The Moorhen was first sighted earlier in the week by Larry Cartwright
and others.
Number Common Name
3 Great Blue Heron
6 Great Egret
1 Green Heron
28 Canada Goose
3 Wood Duck
20 Mallard
9 Hooded Merganser
1 Common Moorhen
42 Semipalmated Plover
1 Killdeer
2 Greater Yellowlegs
4 Solitary Sandpiper
3 Spotted Sandpiper
2 Semipalmated Sandpiper
22 Least Sandpiper
2 Pectoral Sandpipper
1 Dunlin
1 Mourning Dove
1 Barred Owl
4 Red-bellied Woodpecker
3 Downy Woodpecker
1 Hairy Woodpecker
1 Northern Flicker
1 Indigo Bunting
1 Pileated Woodpecker
2 Eastern Wood-Pewee
1 Acadian Flycatcher
1 Eastern Phoebe
2 Great Crested Flycatcher
1 Eastern Kingbird
12 Tree Swallow
3 Northern Rough-winged Swallow
9 Barn Swallow
12 American Crow
4 Tufted Titmouse
1 White-breasted Nuthatch
7 Carolina Wren
3 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
4 Eastern Bluebird
3 Gray Catbird
1 Northern Mockingbird
1 European Starling
3 White-eyed Vireo
11 Red-eyed Vireo
6 Common Yellowthroat
1 Scarlet Tanager
4 Northern Cardinal
1 Chipping Sparrow
1 Song Sparrow
1 Bobolink
47 Red-winged Blackbird
11 Common Grackle
5 American Goldfinch
Huntley Meadows Park can be reached from the Beltway by driving south
approximately three miles to Lockheed Boulevard. Turn right on Lockheed
Boulevard and proceed to the intersection of Lockheed and Harrison Lane. The
Park entrance is on the left.
The regularly scheduled Monday Morning Birdwalk is open to all; the group meets
at 0700 in the Visitor's Center Parking Lot.
For information about this and other programs at Huntley Meadows Park, please
call the Staff at 703-768-2525.
Frederic D. Bogar
Park Volunteer
703-768-3793
Alexandria, VA
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