All:
Spent Friday morning and this morning at Huntley Meadows Park. Both mornings I
was present from about 6am - 9am. This morning I shared the boardwalk with the
7am Monday Morning Birdwalk, plus a plethora of other rail-seeking birders.
The Friday highlight for me was a steady stream of groups of common loons
migrating overhead (plus purple finches at the VC feeders). Monday brought
great looks at sora and Virginia rail. A handful of warblers, shorebirds,
swallows, and some of the earlier migrants adding up to great variety. About
70
species accross both days, I think.
A complete listing of both days follows - approximate numbers for some species
is included (Friday/Monday).
common loon (149/1)
DC cormorant (50/15)
GB heron
great egret
green heron (0/1)
TV (0/1)
Canada goose
wood duck
mallard
blue-winged teal (2/0)
green-winged teal
hooded merganser (1 hen seen in nest box Friday, seen entering same box on
Monday - sorry, forgot the box number)
osprey (1/0)
red shoulder (3/1)
VA rail (0/1)
sora (0/1)
killdeer (1/0)
greater yellowlegs (2/1)
lesser yellowlegs (4/0)
solitary sandpiper (1/0)
pectoral sandpiper (1/0)
snipe (4/0)
rb gull
mourning dove
barred owl (2/1)
chimney swift
belted kingfisher (1/0)
red-bellied wp
downy wp
pileated wp
northern flicker
eastern phoebe (0/1)
blue-headed vireo (1/1)
blue jay
American crow
fish crow
tree swallow
nrw swallow (3/0)
barn swallow
Carolina chickadee
tufted titmouse
wb nuthatch
Carolina wren
rc kinglet
blue-gray gnatcatcher
wood thrush (1/0)
northern mockingbird (0/1)
brown thrasher (0/1)
Euro starling
northern parula (0/1)
yellow-rumps
palm warbler (1/0)
black and white warbler (0/1)
ovenbird (0/1)
LA waterthrush (1/1)
common yellowthroat
scarlet tanager (0/1)
eastern towhee
chipping sparrow
song sparrow
swamp sparrow
white-throated sparrow
northern cardinal
rusty blackbird (50+/2)
common grackle
brown-headed cowbird
purple finch (2 at feeders/0)
house finch
American goldfinch
Chris French
Oakton, VA
bonxie@xxxxxxx
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