The beautiful weather lured me down to Dutch Gap this morning to see what wintering ducks would turn up and to have a look for the American Bittern that has been hanging around. No luck on the Bittern for me or anyone I talked to up to about 11:45 this morning, but perhaps someone turned it up after I left. Recent rains have boosted the water level in the marsh, and there were a good number of the usual ducks; Mallard, Gadwall, American Wigeon, Ring-necked and Shoveler. There was also a flock of Bufflehead up on the fly-ash pond. The bird of the day, however, was an Osprey, hanging out well beyond its usual departure date for warmer climes. My complete list appears below.
-- Lewis Barnett Chair, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Richmond, VA 23173 Location: Henricus - Dutch Gap Conservation Area Observation date: 1/6/07 Number of species: 30 Canada Goose 50 Wood Duck 10 Gadwall 60 American Wigeon 62 Mallard 10 Northern Shoveler 48 Ring-necked Duck 44 Bufflehead 22 Double-crested Cormorant 21 Great Blue Heron 6 Black Vulture 1 Turkey Vulture 2 Osprey 1 Bald Eagle 2 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Ring-billed Gull 100 Mourning Dove 10 Belted Kingfisher 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker X Downy Woodpecker X Northern Flicker 1 Carolina Chickadee X Carolina Wren X Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 European Starling 1 Song Sparrow 1 White-throated Sparrow 10 Dark-eyed Junco 6 Northern Cardinal 1 Red-winged Blackbird 2 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2 (http://www.ebird.org) You are subscribed to VA-Richmond-General. To unsubscribe, send email to va-richmond-general-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. To adjust other settings (vacation, digest, etc.) please visit, //www.freelists.org/list/va-richmond-general.
