Hello all
Hope all who went to the VSO meeting had a great time with friends & seeing
some good birds . Anyway I lead six members of the Augusta Bird Club up on Rt.
610 & the Blue Ridge Parkway to see some of the warblers that push thru this
time of the year . We all met at the Inn at Afton in a heavy fog . For safety I
started the tour out on the Parkway . At the very first over look we encounter
the best bird of the trip a Prothonotary Warbler ( there may have been 2
separate birds ) . With all the fog & rain in different places along the way we
tallied up 40 species of birds with 11 species of warblers . For the Smith's
many of these birds were life birds for them . Below is a list of what we saw &
heard .
Turkey Vulture
Mourning Dove
Red -- bellied Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher -- 2
Yellow - throated Vireo -- 1
Blue - headed Vireo -- 5
Red - eyed Vireo -- 40+
American Crow
Common Raven --- at the tower on Rt. 610 saw one fledged young testing out its
wings
Barn Swallow
Tufted Titmouse
White - breasted Nuthatch
Blue - gray Gnatcatcher -- 3
Wood Thrush -- 9+
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Starling
Chestnut - sided Warbler -- 1
Yellow -- rumped
Pine
Cerulean -- 4
Black- & - White -- 3
American Redstart -- 65+
* Prothonotary -- 2
Ovenbird -- 9+
Kentucky Warbler -- 8
Hooded Warbler -- 12 +
Yellow - breasted Chat -- 2
Scarlet Tanager -- 5
Eastern Towhee -- 20+
Chipping Sparrow
Song Sparrow
No. Cardinal
Rose -- breasted Grosbeak -- 4
Indigo Bunting
Brown - headed Cowbird
Baltimore Oriole --1
Am. Goldfinch -- 30+
Not a bad day of birding in the fog on Rt 610 & the Blue Ridge Parkway. Happy
spring birding to all .
Allen Larner
Staunton
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