Following is the count from Sunday's weekly bird walk at Great Falls National
Park, which identified 32 species and included 5 participants. The group was
surprised to find such a large number of Pileated Wood Peckers (21) and also
saw more than the usual number of Flickers. Near the end of the walk we spotted
a Cooper's Hawk fly in and oversee a field of song and white-throated sparrows
-- who went very quiet.
The walk meets at 8:00 a.m. on Sunday mornings, rain or shine, in front of the
snack bar/concession stand of the Great Falls Park visitors' center; it does
not take place, though, during electrical storms, heavy snows, or when the
trails are icy. All birders are welcome!
Canada Goose 50
Mallard 9
American Black Duck 2
Ring-necked Duck 12
Bufflehead 31
Hooded Merganser 2
Common Merganser 2
duck sp. 3
Pied-billed Grebe 1
Great Blue Heron 1
Black Vulture 17
Turkey Vulture 5
Cooper's Hawk 1
Ring-billed Gull 1
gull sp. 7
Belted Kingfisher 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 9
Downy Woodpecker 5
Hairy Woodpecker 3
Northern Flicker 13
Pileated Woodpecker 21
Blue Jay 10
crow sp. 72
Carolina Chickadee 10
Tufted Titmouse 19
White-breasted Nuthatch 10
Winter Wren 1
Carolina Wren 12
Eastern Bluebird 20
American Robin 2
Dark-eyed Junco 66
White-throated Sparrow 8
Song Sparrow 7
Northern Cardinal 12
American Goldfinch 8
