Another beautiful day to go birding, this time at Bear Creek Lake SP in Cumberland County, which is one of the field trip sites for the annual VSO meeting in Farmville April 23-25. The witch hazel is blooming, there were lots of frogs and toads calling, and the bird highlights were OSPREY and singing PINE WARBLERS and CHIPPING SPARROWS providing a nice study opportunity for the contrast in their songs. Full species list: Location: Bear Creek Lake State Park - PHP03 Observation date: 3/21/10 Number of species: 19 Wood Duck 2 Great Blue Heron 1 Osprey 1 Red-tailed Hawk (Eastern) 1 Belted Kingfisher 1 Downy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 2 Pileated Woodpecker 1 Eastern Phoebe 1 American Crow 4 Carolina Chickadee 4 Tufted Titmouse 6 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 Carolina Wren 3 Eastern Bluebird 2 American Robin 1 Pine Warbler 2 Chipping Sparrow 2 Northern Cardinal 2 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org/VA) Wendy Ealding Powhatan County