I spent the day in King George and Westmoreland
Counties from about 8AM to 7:30 PM Sunday, Sept
17.
1. At King George ponds as the fog was lifting
along route 3 there were very few birds. There
was almost no bare shoreline along the ponds so I
saw no shorebirds there. Higlights here were 3
blue-winged teal, 2 female ring-necked ducks, 1
male ruddy duck, a pied-billed grebe, and some
nice views of eagles.
2. IN Westmoreland County I spent the entire time
in the vicinity of Leedstown on private lands
managed for wildlife. Highlights here were
yellow-bellied flycatcher, 18 warbler species
(see list below) including my latest record of
yellow-throated warbler, my earliest record of
ruby-crowned kinglet, a shoveler, a pectoral
sandpiper and semipalmated plover with 133
killdeer and the most exciting bird, a dapper
clay-colored sparrow, my first fall record.
Here is the list of totals for the day:
1 pied-billed grebe
1 double-crested cormorant
13 great blue heron
4 great egret
7 black vulture
28 turkey vulture
60 Canada Goose
4 Wood Duck
1 Northern Shoveler
3 Blue-winged Teal
3 Mallard
2 ring-necked duck
1 ruddy duck
1 osprey
10 ad, 6 imm and 2 Unknown bald eagle
2 sharp-shinned hawk
2 cooper's hawk
3 red-shouldered hawk
3 red-tailed hawk
1 american kestrel
12 wild turkey
1 bobwhite
1 semipalmated plover
137 killdeer
1 pectoral sandpiper
1 lesser yellowlegs
2 solitary sandpiper
265 laughing gull
6 forster's tern
4 rock pigeon
56 mourning dove
1 yellow-billed cuckoo
5 barred owl, plus a road-killed one
21 chimney swift
2 ruby-throated hummingbird
3 belted kingfisher
15 red-bellied woodpecker
14 downy woodpecker
3 hairy woodpecker
8 flicker
2 pileated
10 wood-pewee
8 empidonax sp
2 acadian flycatchers heard
1 singing yellow-bellied flycatcher
6 phoebe
1 great crested flycatcher
4 white-eyed vireo
17 red-eyed vireo
31 blue jay
38 american crow
8 horned lark
20 tree swallow
2 barn swallow
18 carolina chickadee
18 tufted titmice
4 wb nuthatch
48 carolina wren
2 house wren
1 ruby-crowned kinglet
9 blue-gray gnatcatcher
9 bluebird
2 veery
1 swainson's thrush
5 wood thrush
18 robin
17 catbird
16 mockingbird
5 thrasher
55 starling
9 waxwing
2 Tennessee warbler
2 nashville warbler
9 parula
4 yellow warbler
3 magnolia
3 cape-may
1 bt blue
1 bt green
1 blackburnian
1 yellow-throated
12 pine
3 prairie
1 palm
2 blackpoll
14 black-and-white
5 redstart
1 ovenbird
38 yellowthroat
2 summer tanager
3 scarlet tanager
3 chipping sparrow
3 field sparrow
1 clay-colored sparrow
40 cardinal
3 rose-breasted grosbeeak
11 blue grosbeak
19 indigo bunting
7 bobolink
2 cowbird
15 house finch
50 goldfinch
20 house sparrow
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
http://tea.armadaproject.org/tea_atwoodfrontpage.html
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