Howdy!
Today I visited several sites in northern
Westmoreland County from about 11:00 to 5:30:
George Washington's Birthplace and Muse Road on
the Potomac and a few places in the Leedstown
area near the Rappahannock.
The most exciting bird was the bobolink which I
watched for several minutes in beautiful
afternoon light. It was in a weedy field next to
Liberty Farm Rd at the Mothershead Tract of the
Rappahannock River Valley NWR in Leedstown. This
is the latest I have ever seen a bobolink. More
geese and swans are back but the numbers of ducks
still remains fairly low. Both rivers were calm
and visibility was excellent.
Here is the list:
7 Horned Grebe (Potomac)
4 Red-throated Loon (Potomac)
13 Common Loon (Potomac)
185 double-crested cormorant
2 mute swan
17 tundra swan
2700 canada geese
11 snow goose (scattered)
75 mallard
2 black duck
(dozens of Mallard-shaped ducks were landing in
the Rappahannock River at dusk)
25 gadwall (GWBP)
3 american wigeon (GWBP)
4 ring-necked duck (GWBP)
14 wood duck (Leedstown)
24 ruddy duck
70 bufflehead
10 greater scaup
20 scaup sp.
10 common goldeneye
4 great blue heron
1 turkey
6 black vulture
6 turkey vulture
2 harrier
1 red-tailed hawk
1 kestrel
5 bald eagle
2 killdeer
4 Forster's Terns
4 laughing gulls
30 ring-billed gull
1 herring gull
90 mourning doves
heard 3 great horned owl
heard 1 barred owl
2 belted kingfisher
6 downy woodpecker
17 flicker
5 red-bellied woodpecker
3 yellow-bellied sapsucker
8 carolina wren
1 winter wren
4 mockingbird
2 brown thrasher
(I forgot to mention 2 catbird last week, 11/16
in Leedstown)
100 starling
90 meadowlark
2 brown creeper
2 white-breasted nuthatch
30 american crow
10 blue jay
12 ruby-crowned kinglet
5 golden-crowned kinglet
3 carolina chickadee
6 tufted titmouse
40 american robin
5 bluebird
7 hermit thrush
15 yellow-rumped warbler
20 cardinal
13 field sparrow
39 white-crowned sparrow
13 savannah sparrow
125 song sparrow
60 white-throated sparrow
10 swamp sparrow
30 dark-eyed junco
1 BOBOLINK
1800 grackles flying over
400 red-winged blackbirds flying over
15 goldfinch
At 10 AM in the pond at Singerly in Richmond
County there were 125 Canada Geese, 5 hooded
mergansers, and 2 buffleheads. The Rappahannock
River at Fones Cliffs (Richmond Co)had only 1
Mallard, 8 dc cormorant, 3 great blue heron, and
3 bald eagles
I hope you have a great week!
Fred
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Frederick D. Atwood fredatwood@xxxxxxxxx
Flint Hill School, 10409 Academic Dr, Oakton, VA 22124
703-242-1675
http://www.agpix.com/fredatwood
http://www.flinthill.org
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