We spent the day birding in Loudoun county today and had lots of good birds.
Several were mentioned on previous posts but here is our list of good
things:
Beaverdam:
Red necked Grebe 3
Horned Grebe 10
Pied billed Grebe2
Red throated Loon 1
Common Loon 1
Common Merganser 30
Red breasted Merganser 45
Lesser Scaup 5
Ruddy Duck 2
Bufflehead 2
Tree Swallows
Lucketts' area
American Kestrel
Sharp shinned Hawk, watched from about 10 feet away while it actively fed
Tree Swallows, many at the house in Lucketts with all the Purple Martin
houses, no martins though.
Yellow bellied Sapsucker 1
Eastern Phoebe 1
Savannah Sparrow 1
Dulles Wetlands, the clear star of the day!
Great Blue Heron 2
Green winged Teal 150
Blue winged Teal 2
Northern Pintail 7
American Black Duck 10
Mallard 12
American Wigeon 12
Gadwall 25
Northern Shoveler 3
Ring necked Duck 40
Lesser Scaup 3
Bufflehead 15
Hooded Merganser 4
Tree Swallows
Northern Harrier 1
American Coot 3
Wilson's Snipe 40
Glenn Koppel and Mary Alice Koeneke
koppel@xxxxxxxxx
Centreville, VA 20120-2901
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