I birded the Bloody Angle area of the Spotsylvania National Battlefield this
morning with good success. The trees at the edge of the fields that catch the
morning sun were pretty alive with birds. Later in the morning, I found them
still numerous along the main trail on the opposite side of the fields in the
shade. Would that I had more eyes and could see through the leaves.
The list included (seen and heard):
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 5
Chimney Swift 3
Ruby-throated Hummer 1
Red-billed Woodpecker 8
Downy Woodpecker 7
Hairy Woodpecker 3
Pileated Woodpecker 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee 14 Numerous and vocal.
Eastern Phoebe 1
Great Crested Flycatcher 1
Ywlloe-throated Vireo 1
Red-eyed Vireo 10
Blue jay 12
Carolina Chickadee 11
Tufted Titmouse 11
White-breasted Nuthatch 9 also very vocal.
Carolina Wren 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1
Brown Thrasher 1
Tennessee Warbler 1
Nashville Warbler 1
Chestnut-sided Warbler 4
Blackburnian Warbler 1
Pine Warbler 8 at least
Black-and-White Warbler 8
American redstart 5
Ovenbird 1
Kentucky Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 1
Scarlet Tanager 12 very numerous and noticeable.
Northern Cardinal 4
Baltimore Oriole 3
Jim Goehring
Fredericksburg, VA
James E. Goehring
Department of Classics, Philosophy, and Religion
University of Mary Washington
Fredericksburg, VA 22401
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