Given the forecast of north winds last night, we had high hopes for neotrops
at the weekly Friends of Dyke Marsh walk. No such luck. We had exactly two
warblers, a palm and an early yellow-rump. Other highlights included lots of
waterfowl, an early junco and swamp sparrow, and the 2 moorhens. List
follows (numbers are very approximate):
pied-billed grebe 40+
cormorant 10
ruddy duck 15
Canada goose 50
wood duck 8
mallard 30
blue-winged teal 10
shoveler 200
ring-neck duck 1 (Firestone)
great blue heron 60
great egret 80
osprey 3
bald eagle 1 (immature)
red-shoulder 2 (an adult and an immature)
common moorhen 1
coot 25
greater yellowlegs 1
lesser yellowlegs 1 (also a dozen distant yellowlegs sp.)
spotted sandpiper 2
ring-billed gull yes
great black-back 5
herring 1
laughing 1
Caspian tern 20
Forster's tern 40
rock dove yes
morning dove yes
swift 7
kingfisher 2
red-bellied woodpecker 5
downy 3
flicker 4
pewee 1
blue jay yes
American crow yes
robin 40
catbird 2
mockingbird 1
starling yes
white-breasted nut 2
Carolina wren 10
swallow sp. 1 (probably rough-wing)
chickadee 12
titmouse 5
goldfinch 15
house finch 12
yellow-rumped warbler 1
palm warbler 1
song sparrow 1
swamp sparrow 1
junco 1
cardinal yes
waxwing 2
red-winged BB yes
grackle yes
This morning I had only two black-throated blues and a tanager in White Oaks
Park.
Ben Jesup
Alexandria
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