[va-bird] Occoquan Bay NWR 9/4/06

  • From: "Scott Priebe" <falco57@xxxxxxx>
  • To: "va-bird" <va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 12:22:05 -0400

Visited Occoquan Bay for a few hours this AM. Highlights were a small flock 
(5-8) of Bobolinks at the split between Fox and Bayview Rds. at 7:10; numerous 
flycatchers throughout; a mixed group of 4-5 female Black-and-white Warblers, 
one Red-eyed Vireo, two Ruby-crowned Kinglets, and one unidentified mostly 
yellow warbler (first impression was Nashville or Mourning); a pair of Palm 
Warblers in the cherry trees at the parking lot; and a group of 7-10 N. 
Mockingbirds around the Bravo Rd. gate. Complete list follows.

Scott Priebe
Springfield, VA

Canada Goose
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Green Heron
Osprey
Mourning Dove
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Eastern Phoebe (10-15)
Eastern Kingbird (>15, 11 in the marsh at the end of Easy Rd.)
Empidonax ssp. (>6)
White-eyed Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged 
Carolina Chickadee
White-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (2)
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
European Starling
Palm Warbler(2)
Black-and-white Warbler (4-5)
Northern Waterthrush
Common Yellowthroat
Field Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Bobolink (5-8)
Red-winged Blackbird
Baltimore Oriole
American Goldfinch

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