We spent a few hours early this morning at G. Richard Thompson Wildlife
Management Area until the heat and the black flies became oppressive.
Highlights for us were the Blue Winged Warbler at the pond, Rose Breasted
Gosbeak and Cerulean Warblers at Parking Area 7. We were quite surprised to
see the road to the top is now paved and a new parking area has been made at
number 7.
Afterwards we went up to the Casselman Bridge (Rt 7) over the Shenadoah to
find about 12 pairs of Cliff Swallows nesting. Tiger Swallowtail
butterflies were everywhere!
Following is our bird list at G. Richard Thompson followed by our butterfly
list.
Black Vulture
Canada Goose
Mourning Dove
Yellow billed Cuckoo
Ruby throated Hummingbird
Red bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Eastern Wood Pewee
Acadian Flycatcher
Great crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Red eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Northern Rough winged Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Blue gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
Wood Thrush
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
Blue winged Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Ovenbird
Kentucky Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler
Scarlet Tanager
Eastern Towhee
Field Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Rose breasted Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Red winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Common Grackle
Brown headed Cowbird
American Goldfinch
Butterflles found were:
Red spotted Purple
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Cabbage White
Summer Azure
Silver spotted Skipper
Question Mark
Hackberry Emperor
Red Admiral
Northern Pearly Eye
Appalachian Brown
Red banded Hairstreak
Least Skipper
Glenn Koppel and Mary Alice Koeneke
koppel@xxxxxxxxx
Centreville, VA 20120-2901
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