I birded eastern Prince William County this morning with Skip Hyberg of MD to
show him how we do things in VA. We started around 5 at Quantico Marine Base
to listen for night birds, and came across a chuck-wills-widow, the first I
have heard in Prince William in many, many years. At the same stop were three
whip-poor-wills and a displaying woodcock. We then went on to Cockpit Pt.
Road, Leesylvania State Park, and Metz Wetlands. We had to quit around 10:30,
and we had over 100 species by then. I later made a short visit to Occoquan
NWR and added a few more. All in all a pretty lively morning. There were some
good pockets of migrants along Cockpit Pt. Rd. and Leesylvania. All told we
came up with 23 species of warbler, least flycatcher, lots of kingbirds and
waxwings, and good numbers of tanagers of both species. At Occoquan I found
bank swallows, my first of the year, and the banding station there caught a
Lincoln's sparrow.
Here is the list:
great blue heron
great egret
green heron
canada goose
wood duck
mallard
black vulture
turkey vulture
osprey
bald eagle
Cooper's hawk
red-tailed hawk
killdeer
american woodcock
greater yellowlegs
lesser yellowlegs
solitary sandpiper
spotted sandpiper
ring-billed gull
rock pigeon
mourning dove
yellow-billed cuckoo
barred owl
chuck-will's widow
whip-poor-will
chimney swift
ruby-throated hummingbird
belted kingfisher
red-bellied woodpecker
downy woodpecker
northern flicker
pileated woodpecker
eastern wood pewee
acadian flycatcher
least flycatcher
eastern phoebe
great-crested flycatcher
eastern kingbird
purple martin
tree swallow
northern rough-winged swallow
bank swallow
barn swallow
cedar waxwing
carolina wren
house wren
gray catbird
northern mockingbird
brown thrasher
eastern bluebird
wood thrush
robin
blue-gray gnatcatcher
carolina chickadee
tufted titmouse
blue jay
american crow
fish crow
starling
white-eyed vireo
red-eyed vireo
warbling vireo
nashville warbler
northern parula
yellow warbler
chestnut-sided warbler
magnolia warbler
black-throated blue warbler
yellow-rumped warbler
black-throated green warbler
blackburnian warbler
yellow-throated warbler
prairie warbler
blackpoll warbler
black-and-white warbler
american redstart
prothonotary warbler
worm-eating warbler
ovenbird
northern waterthrush
Louisiana waterthrush
common yellowthroat
wilson's warbler
canada warbler
yellow-breasted chat
scarlet tanager
summer tanager
eastern towhee
chipping sparrow
field sparrow
song sparrow
swamp sparrow
white-throated sparrow
northern cardinal
rose-breasted grosbeak
blue grosbeak
indigo bunting
red-winged blackbird
common grackle
brown-headed cowbird
baltimore oriole
orchard oriole
house finch
american goldfinch
house sparrow
Marc Ribaudo
Woodbridge, VA
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