I saw 2 Ravens fly over Huntley Meadows Park 2.22.20
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Today's Topics:
1. More hawkamania (Marshall Faintich)
2. College Creek Hawkwatch and American White Pelicans (Brian Taber)
3. NVBC field trip to Blandy Experimental Farm, Clarke county,
Feb 29, 2020 (Elton Morel)
4. Common (Northern) Raven in Reston (David Young)
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Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 10:00:00 -0500
From: "Marshall Faintich" <marshall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [VA-bird] More hawkamania
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Four or five Red-shouldered Hawks; Old Trail; Crozet, VA, 2/28/2020.
Continuing Common Merganser. Report and photos:
<http://www.faintich.net/Blog2020/2020_02_28.htm>
http://www.faintich.net/Blog2020/2020_02_28.htm
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Marshall Faintich
Crozet, VA
marshall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
www.faintich.net <http://www.faintich.net/>
In real life, the shortest distance between two points is never a straight
line, so you might as well enjoy the journey !!
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Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 20:13:08 +0000 (UTC)
From: Brian Taber <taberzz@xxxxxxx>
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Subject: [VA-bird] College Creek Hawkwatch and American White Pelicans
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Today began the 24th consecutive season of the College Creek Hawkwatch,
operated by Coastal Virginia Wildlife Observatory. We have moved the season
back a little in recent years as February migration is quite slow. March is
typically the month of the most movement of vultures and hawks, April has
the most diversity and May is the best time for kites.
Bill Williams, Nancy Barnhart and I are the main volunteers, covering as
we can. Migration there is usually from about 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Visitors are
welcome, but feel free to email me directly to see if someone will be there
on a particular day.
The Hawkwatch is located on the Colonial Parkway, just southeast of
Williamsburg, where College Creek empties into the James River. We watch as
the birds cross the river heading north. We sit at the smaller of the two
parking lots, the one on the river shore.
Today had 4 Black Vultures, 4 Turkey Vultures and a Red-tailed Hawk....and
18 American White Pelicans were circling over Hog Island Wildlife
Management Area to the south. There were a number of distant, large
unidentified birds, so there might have been even more pelicans. There were
about 10 Bald Eagles, though none were judged to be migrating. Temperature
was low forties with strong and gusty northwest winds.
As always, data is reported to the Hawkwcount.org site, operated by Hawk
Migration Association of North America.
Brian TaberCVWO
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Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 22:02:08 +0000 (UTC)
From: Elton Morel <elton_morel@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [VA-bird] NVBC field trip to Blandy Experimental Farm, Clarke
county, Feb 29, 2020
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VA Birders,
Sixteen very hardy birders visited Blandy Farm in Clarke county this
morning. We started the morning at freezing temperatures and very windy
conditions -- so much so that the birding was difficult what with many
birds hunkered down. We did collectively manage to find 37 species despite
not finding any of the more uncommon sparrow species. The notable finds of
the morning were a female Purple Finch -- a really scarce species this
winter -- in amongst a flock of House Finches at Rattlesnake Springs, the
continuing Marsh Wren was heard at the springs, several Yellow-bellied
Sapsuckers, a very cooperative Hermit Thrush and a partially snoozing
Barred Owl perched out in the open -- perhaps sunning itself as well and
paying no mind to all the other birds coming in to take an inquisitive look
at him. We ended the late morning by going out the farm fields at the back
entrance along Berrys Ferry Road (628) and managed to pull out of the
driest, grassiest field a couple of Horned Larks
despite the howling 30 mph wind.
The eBird checklist is below.
Elton Morel
Arlington, Virginia
Blandy Experimental Farm, Clarke, Virginia, US
Feb 29, 2020 8:30 AM - 12:20 PM
Protocol: Traveling
3.5 mile(s)
Checklist Comments: NVBC field trip led by Dave Boltz and Elton Morel
37 species (+1 other taxa)
Mallard 12
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 75
Mourning Dove 15
Great Blue Heron 1
Black Vulture 40
Turkey Vulture 25
Red-shouldered Hawk 2
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Barred Owl 1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 3
Red-bellied Woodpecker 4
Downy Woodpecker 3
Eastern Phoebe 1
Blue Jay 8
American Crow 10
crow sp. 8
Carolina Chickadee 4
Tufted Titmouse 6
Horned Lark 2
Golden-crowned Kinglet 3
White-breasted Nuthatch 2
Winter Wren 1
Marsh Wren 1 Continuing. Heard only, a brief series of 'chit-chit-chit'
from the Rattlesnake Springs marsh.
Carolina Wren 4
European Starling 40
Northern Mockingbird 7
Hermit Thrush 1
American Robin 50
House Finch 12
Purple Finch 1 One female Purple Finch with the House Finch flock at
Rattlesnake Springs. Noted white supercilium and 'bull-headed' appearance
were noted from the other House Finches. Scarce species this winter.
American Goldfinch 8
Dark-eyed Junco 6
White-throated Sparrow 25
Song Sparrow 30
Red-winged Blackbird 8
Common Grackle 4
Yellow-rumped Warbler 1
Northern Cardinal 12
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S65286477
This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (
https://ebird.org/home)
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2020 00:37:42 +0000 (UTC)
From: David Young <lcdyoung93@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [VA-bird] Common (Northern) Raven in Reston
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? ?The Raven was vocally greeting customers from the rooftop of?the North
Point Giant store in Reston around 4:00 pm. Saw one there last Feb. too.?
Dave Young ..Reston, Virginia?
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