Ben Jesup and I spent 2 hours at Huntley Meadows this morning from 6:30 to
8:30. Here's a quick list of the highlights:
Common Loon - 6 flyovers
Green Winged Teal 4
Blue Winged Teal 5
Bufflehead 2
Malard - a bunch (2 had green heads but no white neck ring)
Black Duck
Hooded Merg 3
Gadwall 5
Coot
Greater Yellowlegs 2 (hardly any mudflats exposed)
Kestral - male
Red Tailed Hawk
Red Shouldered Hawk
Coopers Hawk
Sharpshinned
Harrier - possible - (it was flying high and weird. It never stopped
flapping its wings and was doing an undulating flight like a giant
goldfinch!. If it wasn't a Harrier, it was probably a Coopsâ¦â¦â¦.weird, I
know, you had to see it to believe it.)
Pileated WP
Brown Creeper
WB Nuthatch 2
Phoebe 4
Tree Swallow - many
Blue Grey Gnatcatcher
Hermit Thrush
Rusty Blackbirds - 100
Rufous Sided Towhee (I'm stickin' with the cool name, not the bland one!)
Louisiana Waterthrush
Yellow Rumps - 6
Swamp Sp.
Song Sp
White Throat Sp.
Bart Hutchinson
Alexandria, VA
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