We ran the Front Royal BBS route Saturday June 16, 2007. This route starts at
the entrance sign at the north entrance of the park and runs to just south of
Elk Wallow Wayside.
We had good numbers of both Cuckoos, and warblers and added the following new
birds to the list, Eastern Screech Owl, Wood Duck and Yellow breasted Chat.
One of the other highlights of the day was watching an adult Peregrine from
Stony Man Mountain.
Following is the list:
Wood Duck 1 (new to list)
Broad winged Hawk 2
Mourning Dove 6
Black billed Cuckoos 3
Yellow billed Cuckoo 15
Eastern Screech Owl 2 (new to list)
Chimney Swift 2
Red bellied Woodpecker 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 4
Pileated Woodpecker 1
Eastern Wood Pewee 15
Acadian Flycatcher 15
Eastern Phoebe 2
Great crested Flycatcher 5
Blue headed Vireo 3
Red eyed Vireo 46
American Crow 18
Common Raven 6
Carolina Chickadee 1
Tufted Titmouse 7
White breasted Nuthatch 5
Blue gray Gnatcatcher 1
Veery 6
Wood Thrush 36
American Robin 1
Gray Catbird 4
Cedar Waxwing 13
Chestnut sided Warbler 1
Cerulean Warbler 6
Black and White Warbler 2
American Redstart 28
Worm eating Warbler 5
Ovenbird 22
Louisiana Waterthrush 1
Hooded Warbler 4
Yellow breasted Chat 1 (new to list)
Scarlet Tanager 8
Eastern Towhee 41
Chipping Sparrow 3
Dark eyed Junco 3
Northern Cardinal 15
Rose breasted Grosbeak 1
Indigo Bunting 39
Common Grackle 1
Brown headed Cowbird 8
American Goldfinch 3
Other birds seen but not on the count in the Park:
Turkey Vulture
Blue Jay
Barn Swallow
Peregrine
Eastern Kingbird
Song Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Red tailed Hawk
Butterflies seen
Great spangled Fritillary
Silver spotted Skipper
Cabbage White
Eastern tailed Blue
Pearl Crescent
Orange Sulphur
Clouded Sulphur
Monarch
Glenn Koppel and Mary Alice Koeneke
gjkoppel@xxxxxxx
Centreville, VA
