[va-bird] May 14 at Rappahannock NWR...dickcissel arrived, May 13: 71 species

  • From: Sandy_Spencer@xxxxxxx
  • To: va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 20:03:38 -0400

Heard my first dickcissel today  on the Wilna Tract, field 4
2 Chuck-will's widows and 2 whip-poor wills during an owl survey last night
on the Wright tract

Birds noted on a phenomenal day May 13:

Horned larke (3) (in a field of clover and henbit)
Grasshopper sparrow (everywhere now)
Bobolink (6)
Eastern meadowlarks
Northern bobwhite
Warblers :
American redstart
Black throated blue
Black throated green
Blackpoll
Prothonotary (several)
Yellow-throated warbler
Louisiana waterthrush
Chesnut sided
Magnolia
Yellow rumped
Black and white
Prairie warbler
Common yellowthroat
Yellow breasted chat
Pine warbler
Worm-eating
Yellow warbler
Hooded warbler
Ovenbird
Scarlet tanager
Summer tanager
Field sparrow
Wood thrush
Eastern wood peewee
Chipping sparrow
Indigo bunting
American goldfinch
Blue grosbeak
Yellow billed cuckoo
House finch
Eastern bluebird
Baltimore oriole
Orchard oriole  (including 3 first year males)
Yellow throated vireo
Red-eyed vireo
White-eyed vireo
Eastern tufted titmouse
Carolina wren
Red-bellied woodpecker
Pileated woodpecker
Rubythroated hummingbird
Great crested flycatcher
Acadian flycatcher
Eastern phoebe
Eastern towhee
Cedar waxwings (poss two flocks)
Blue gray gnatcatcher
Barn swallow
Tree swallow
Northern rough=winged swallow
Northern cardinal
Brown headed cowbird
Brown thrasher
Blue jay
Green heron
Wood duck
Eastern Kingbird
Redwinged blackbird
Spotted sandpiper
Wild turkey
Bald eagle
Osprey
Canada geese and goslings

Sandy C. Spencer,
Northern Neck
Warsaw, Va

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