Gentle Readers,
Mary Floyd, Sy Fishbein, and Barry Pearson led a group of 13 birders this
morning, Monday, May 3, 2004, in the light intermittent rain with no wind and
cool temperatures from 0700 to 0900. The best birds had to be the pair of
ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK seen at the feeder at the Visitor's Center. That
Northern Virginia is enjoying a fallout of this species seems undisputable.
2 Great Blue Heron
5 Great Egret
17 Canada Geese
8 Mallard
13 Hooded Merganser
1 Greater Yellowlegs
22 Lesser Yellowlegs
6 Solitary Sandpiper
3 Least Sandpiper
1 Wilson's Snipe
3 Mourning Dove
1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo
2 Red-bellied Woodpecker
2 Red-bellied Woodpecker
2 Downy Woodpecker
1 Hairy Woodpecker
3 Red-eyed Vireo
9 Tree Swallow
4 Northern Rough-winged Swallow
9 Barn Swallow
1 Blue Jay
3 Carolina Wren
6 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1 Wood Thrush
1 American Robin
6 European Starling
1 Yellow Warbler
12 Yellow-rumped Warbler
3 Common Yellowthroat
3 Scarlet Tanager
6 Northern Cardinal
2 Rose-breasted Grosbeak
2 Song Sparrow
12 Common Grackle
1 Baltimore Oriole
2 House Finch
33 Red-winged Blackbird
6 American Goldfinch
Huntley Meadows Park can be reached from the Beltway by driving south
approximately three miles to Lockheed Boulevard. Turn right on Lockheed
Boulevard and proceed to the intersection of Lockheed and Harrison Lane. The
Park entrance is on the left.
The regularly scheduled Monday Morning Birdwalk is open to all; the group meets
at 0700 in the Visitor's Center Parking Lot.
For information about this and other programs at Huntley Meadows Park, please
call the Staff at 703-768-2525.
Frederic D. Bogar
Park Volunteer
703-768-3793
Alexandria, VA
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