Twenty-two people participated in the bird walk at the Banshee Reeks Nature
Preserve in central Loudoun Co (www.bansheereeks.org) yesterday morning, Sept.
10. Because of the number of people we split into two groups w/Kurt Gaskill,
Mary Ann Good & Jay Keller leading one group and John Drummond the other. A
few of us were fortunate enough to survey, with permission, the Dulles Greenway
Wetlands Mitigation Project before hand. The highlights of the 84-species day
included an immature Bald Eagle begging food from an BALD EAGLE at the
Wetlands, VIRGINIA RAIL & SORA (heard) at the Wetlands. A TENNESSEE, a
NASHVILLE, a WILSON'S & a BAY-BREASTED WARBLER were among the 12 warblers seen
at Banshee. Most of the warblers were found in in one large (or two small)
loose group(s) on the Old Field Loop.
Don't forget that Banshee is open to the general public next week (the 3rd
weekend of the month) on Saturday & Sunday, Sept. 17 & 18, from 8 am to 4 pm
and there will be a butterfly walk sponsored by the Loudoun Wildlife
Conservancy (www.loudounwildlife.org) & FOBR at 10 am on the 17th.
The complete list follows (the 2nd number is for the Wetlands):
Great Blue Heron 0/1
Great Egret 0/6
Greeen Heron 1/5
Black Vulture 1
Turkey Vulture 2
Canada Goose 0/150
Wood Duck 0/5
Mallard 0/35
Blue-winged Teal 0/9
Bald Eagle 0/2 (one immature begging food from an adult)
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1/0
Cooper's Hawk 0/1
Red-shouldered Hawk 2/2
Red-tailed Hawk 0/1
Virginia Rail 0/1
Sora 0/1
Killdeer 0/25
Greater Yellowlegs 0/3
Lesser Yellowlegs 0/5
Solitary Sandpiper 0/5
Spotted Sandpiper 0/1
Semipalmated Sandpiper 0/6
Least Sandpiper 0/1?
Pectoral Sandpiper 0/1
Rock Pigeon 0/3
Mourning Dove 15/2
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
Chimney Swift 8
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 5/1
Belted Kingfisher 3/1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 4
Downy Woodpecker 5
Hairy Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker 8
Pileated Woodpecker 3
Eastern Wood-Pewee 17
Acadian Flycatcher 2
Traill's Flycatcher 2
Eastern Phoebe 9
Great Crested Flycatcher 2/1
Eastern Kingbird 2/1
White-eyed Vireo 4
Red-eyed Vireo 17
Blue Jay 14
American Crow 11/6
Fish Crow 0/2
Tree Swallow 3
No. Rough-winged Swallow 4/2
Carolina Chickadee 11
Tufted Titmouse 16/2
White-breasted Nuthatch 7
Carolina Wren 14/2
House Wren 4/1
Blue-gray Gnatcathcer 2
Eastern Bluebird 25/1
American Robin 125/4
Gray Catbird 33/6
Northern Mockingbird 10
Brown Thrasher 9
European Starling 30/15
Cedar Waxwing 30/5
Tennessee Warbler 1
Nashville Warbler 1
Chestnut-sided Warbler 4
Magnolia Warbler 5
Black-throated Green Warbler 5
Blackburnian Warbler 5
Prairie Warbler 1
Bay-breasted Warbler 1
Black-and-white Warbler 7
American Redstart 3
Common Yellowthroat 30/7
Wilson's Warbler 1
Scarlet Tanager 2
Eastern Towhee 7
Field Sparrow 10
Song Sparrow 4
Northern Cardinal 16/3
Indigo Bunting 10/3
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 2
Blue Grosbeak 2/1
Indigo Bunting 15
Red-winged Blackbird 2/50
Common Grackle 2
Brown-headed Cowbird 4
Baltimore Oriole 1
Am Goldfinch 230/4
Joe Coleman
jandkcoleman@xxxxxxxxx or 540-554-2542
