I orginally when out to check on a chickadee nest box but ended up birding for
over two hour in the light to medium drizzle. I saw a flock of 12 RUSTY
BLACKBIRS. FOS for me PLAM and BLACK AND WHITE WARBLES, hermit thrush, and
CASPIAN TERNS. Most noteable was a GADWALL/WIGEON HYBRID among the Gadwall in
the beaver pond to the left before the offical park enterance. It had a short
blue and black tipped bill and a rounder head with a more upright profile; a
small white patch on the forhead and a dark grayish patch where the green patch
would be on a m wigeon. The body was brownish gray. There was a white hip
patch.
I also when to a river lookout in the custon kastles development north of
Featherstone NWR. There where lots of swallows flying low to the water near
and way out on the river. I'd say one or two hunderd total at least They were
Barn Swallows
Tree Swallows and
Roughwinged Swallow
Also a small raft of
Ruddy ducks 16
Vet's Park list
Gadwall 7
Strange hybird 1(see above)
Blue-winged Teal 2
Wood ducks 5
Common Merganser 1
mallards
Canada geese
fish crows
Bald Eagles 2
Osprey 2 (they have a nest on top of one of the light towers for a baseball
field)
Red-shoulder hawk (ear)
Lesser Yellowlegs 9
Greater Yellowleg 3 (great side by side comparison)
Killdeer 4
Wilsons Snipe 3
Ringbilled Gull 100+
Bonparte's Gull 25
Caspian Tern 2
Kingfisher 2
Dowy WP
Hairy WP
Redbellied WP (ear)
Pheobe
Carolina Chickdee (singing)
Titmouse 2
Whitebreasted nuthatch (ear)
Carolina wren
Blue jay
Roughwinged swallow
Ruby crowned kinglet
Blue-gray gnatcatcher
Hermit Trush
Robins
Mockingbirds
Cedar Waxwings 3 or more
Startings
Plam Warblers 3
Yellow rumped warblers 8+
Yellow-throated warbler
Black and white warbler
Towhee 3 (ear)
Song sparrows
White throated sparrows
Redwinged blackbirds 30+
Rusty blackirds 12
Grackles
Kevin Parker
Dale City
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