Sunday Oct 31, 2004
Highlights were lots of waterfowl (including 160
wood ducks), lincoln's sparrow, pine siskin,
woodcock, great egret
King George ponds and scattered other places
along route 3 In King George Co @ 7:30-9:00 AM.
LOTS of waterfowl!
190 Ruddy Duck
1310 Ring-necked Duck
24 Mallard Duck
2 Northern Pintail
70 Gadwall
85 American Wigeon
2055 Canada Goose
5 pied-billed grebe
30 American coot
4 Double-crested Cormorant
2 Great Blue Heron
1 kestrel
3 bald eagle ( 1 adult, 2 immature)
1 harrier
1 greater yellowlegs
3 american pipit
many ring-billed and laughing gulls
300 grackles, 400 cowbirds, 100 starlings, 200
redwinged blackbirds
9 bluebirds
5 turkey vulture
Westmoreland County
George Washington's Birthplace and nearby Muse
Road (624) 9:30-11:30
(Swarmed by ladybugs as reported by Dubill and
Kline)
4 common loon
3050 Canada Goose
20 Mallard
57 Ruddy Duck
5 Wood Duck
29 Forster's Tern
51 Double-crested Cormorant
1 peep sp flying by
55 laughing, 40 ring-billed, 5 herring gull
10 great blue heron
3 adult bald eagle
3 red-tailed hawk
2 kestrel
1 sharp-shinned hawk
2 belted kingfisher
7 rock dove and 25 mourning dove
3 golden-crowned and 6 ruby-crowned kinglet
5 chickadee and 5 titmice
5 carolina wren
1 sapsucker, 9 flicker, 3 red-bellied, 1 downy.
120 robins, 25 cedar waxwing, 10 starlings eating
hackberries.
15 blue jay, 1 fish crow, 15 other crows
5 bluebirds
7 cardinal and 4 mockingbird
3 yellow-rumped and 1 pine warbler
I missed the purple finch
1 pine siskin
4 white-throat, 1 white-crowned, 1 chipping, and
5 song sparrows. 25 juncos.
4 turkey vulture
Westmoreland State Park
1 winter wren
Richmond County 1:20-2:20
Singerly Pond:450 Canada Geese, 2 ruddy duck, 1
killdeer
Fones Cliffs: 3 Bald Eagle (immature), 1 harrier,
1 double-crested cormorant, 3 forster's terns
4 turkey vulture
Back to Westmoreland County: until dark
Leedstown area
My property: 1 Lincoln' Sparrow, 1 winter wren, 1
hermit thrush, and 1 Woodcock
Other locations:
17 double-crested cormorant
1280 Canada Goose
160 (WOW) Wood Duck (152 flying in at dusk)
55 Mallard
130 Green-winged Teal
6 Gadwall
80 killdeer (all in one flock at Muse Farm)
3 greater yellowlegs
4 forster's tern
1 Great Egret
5 Great Blue Heron
1 harrier
1 kestrel
1 sharp-shinned hawk
1 red-tail
2 belted kingfisher
Sparrows: swamp 20, white-throat 20,
white-crowned 8, song 55, field 10, juncos 20,
towhee 1.
Woodpeckers: 1 pileated, 14 flicker, 8
red-bellied.
4 golden crowned and 5 ruby-crowned kinglet
7 bluebirds
95 american crows, all on Parker Farm.
20 cardinal and 8 mockingbird
3 yellow-rumped warblers and 1 pine warbler
20 horned lark (Muse Farm)
3 chickadee and 5 titmice
9 Carolina Wren
25 mourning dove
miscellaneous small groups of blackbirds that I
forgot to look at.
7 turkey vulture and 1 black vulture
Yellow-legged meadowhawk (dragonfly)
Scattered singing from Upland Chorus Frog, wood
frog, spring peepers
Fabulous sunset!
All the best
fred
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Frederick D. Atwood fredatwood@xxxxxxxxx
Flint Hill School, 10409 Academic Dr, Oakton, VA 22124
703-242-1675
http://www.agpix.com/fredatwood
http://www.flinthill.org
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