Greetings,
Len DiIoia, Ryan Mays, and Alan & Clyde Kessler birdwatched Saturday morning
(8 January 2005) in Pulaski County. There were intermittent rain showers
through the morning, but there were also four rainbows. On a sadder note, we
found a roadkill Great Horned Owl, and a roadkill mink.
The Brown-headed Nuthatches noted below were part of a mixed flock that
included about seven of the Red-breasted Nuthatches and some chickadees and
titmice. The BHN population in Pulaski County is a disjunct population and is
the farthest west population in Virginia. A nest with young was found in
spring 2001, and BHNs have been present since 1994 when they were first
encountered in Dublin, VA.
Great Blue Heron 1
Black Vulture 10
Turkey Vulture 20
American Black Duck 1
Mallard 53
Gadwall 16
Northern Harrier 3 immatures
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Coopers Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 10
American Kestrel 1
Wild Turkey 30
Ring-billed Gull 273
Mourning Dove 6
Great Horned Owl 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2
Downy Woodpecker 5
Hairy Woodpecker 4
Northern Flicker 5
Pileated Woodpecker 2
Blue Jay 2
American Crow 36
Common Raven 5
Carolina Chickadee 20
Tufted Titmouse 7
Red-breasted Nuthatch 14
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
Brown-headed Nuthatch 3
Carolina Wren 11
Golden-crowned Kinglet 6
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 3
Eastern Bluebird 36
Hermit Thrush 3
American Robin 16
Northern Mockingbird 6
Starling 25
Yellow-rumped Warbler 1
Field Sparrow 18
Savannah Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 12
White-throated Sparrow 8
Dark-eyed Junco 46
Northern Cardinal 12
Red-winged Blackbird 2
Purple Finch 1
House Finch 2
American Goldfinch 4
Best,
Clyde Kessler
Radford, VA
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