I visited Leesylvania this morning, hoping for a repeat of the activity
on the hillside that Kurt Gaskill described yesterday. I was not
disappointed. If anything, activity was more frenetic. However, since
I was alone I did not have the benefit of another 2 pairs of eyes, and I
probably missed a lot. Nevertheless, the hill yielded 2 screech owls
(calling to each other at 7am; same as yesterday?), 2 summer tanagers, 1
scarlet tanager, 2 yellow-billed cuckoos, 2 Traill's flycatchers, 2
pewee, 2 Baltimore oriole, scads of gnatcatchers (10+), 1 house wren, 8
magnolia warbler (the most common), 5 parula, 4 blackburnian warbler, 2
chestnut-sided warbler, 1 palm warbler, 1 pine warbler, 1 prothonotary
warbler, 1 ovenbird, 1 Cape May warbler, 2 red-eyed vireos, 4
ruby-throated hummingbirds, 6 downy woodpeckers, 1 hairy, 3 northern
flickers, and 2 red-bellied. Chimney swift and rough-winged swallow
were constantly overhead.
The rest of the park was fairly quiet. The beaver pond area yielded
another summer tanager, 3 blue grosbeaks, 3 indigo buntings, several
pewees, and more rough-winged swallows.
Marc Ribaudo
Woodbridge, VA
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