Six people joined me for the weekly Friends of Dyke Marsh bird walk this
morning, Sunday 5 Feburary 2005. The birds may have been staying in the
shelter of the shrubs and tangles; it was fairly quiet and the cool
conditions (overcast skies and SSW wind) did not seem to be promoting
much activity along the Haul Rd.
VA: Fairfax Co: Belle Haven Picnic Grounds and Dyke Marsh.
28 March 2004: 0800 to 1100 EST.
From the shore of picnic grounds, we scoped the Potomac and the bay off
the mouth Hunting Creek. Affter checking the marina, we slowly
progressed down the Haul Road and out the new boardwalk to the terminal
platform; returned more rapidly back up the Haul Road.
3 to 7 C; overcast, changing to mostly cloudy after 1015; 15-20 km/hr
SSW; low tide was circa 0740, but the water was relatively high: the
flats off the mouth of Hunting Creek were largely submerged, the water
was part way up the rip rap along the shore of the picnic grounds, and
the water was well up into the marsh vegetation along the Haul Road;
recent tides and high waters had carried a good deal of dead vegetation
and trash up onto the last section of pathway before the boardwalk;
Canada Goose 375 --- most in flocks N of the
picnic grounds;
Mallard 14
Lesser Scaup 31
Bufflehead 8
Common Merganser 20 --- 8 m, 12 f
Red-Breasted Merganser 9 --- 5 m, 4 f
Great Blue Heron 11
Bald Eagle 6 --- 3 ad, 3 im
Sharp-Shinned Hawk 1
Cooper's Hawk 1 --- ad, f
Red-Tailed Hawk 1
Ring-Billed Gull 85
Great Black Backed Gull 12
Mourning Dove 16
Belted Kingfisher 1
Red-Bellied Woodpecker 4
Downy Woodpecker 7
Yellow Shafted Flicker 2
Pileated Woodpecker 2
Blue Jay 10
American Crow 8
Fish Crow 6
crow spp 8
Carolina Chickadee 27
Tufted Titmouse 6
Carolina Wren 19
Golden-Crowned Kinglet 3
American Robin 3
Gray Catbird 1
N Mockingbird 2
Euro Starling 35
Eastern Towhee 1
Song Sparrow 30
Swamp Sparrow 3
White-Throated Sparrow 55
White-Crowned Sparrow 1 --- 1st winter
N Cardinal 26
Red-Winged Blackbird 75
House Finch 9
American Goldfinch 11
House Sparrow 10
Sherman Suter
Alexandria, VA 22307
ssuter aaas org
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