Hello Birders, A good showing of birds and birders this morning. 20 or so people joined the Hampton Roads/Richmond Audubon field trip. It was a great morning out with good looks at many of the birds seen. Most folks saw most of the birds. Numbers approximate. Thanks, Arun Bose Richmond Location: James River Park - Main Section Observation date: 5/10/08 Notes: Sunny becoming overcast. 50s/60s F. Rain in early hours of am. Number of species: 71 Canada Goose X with downy young Wood Duck 2 pair Mallard X Great Blue Heron 2 Black Vulture 3 Turkey Vulture 1 Osprey 1 Bald Eagle 1 Spotted Sandpiper 4 High water made birds very visible Ring-billed Gull 1 Mourning Dove X Chimney Swift 5 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2 1 female collecting nest material from cotton wood blossoms. Belted Kingfisher 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 3 Downy Woodpecker 2 Pileated Woodpecker 1 White-breasted Nuthatch X Northern Flicker 1 Eastern Phoebe 1 Great Crested Flycatcher 1 Eastern Kingbird 2 White-eyed Vireo 2 Warbling Vireo 1 Red-eyed Vireo 6 Blue Jay X American Crow X Purple Martin 1 Tree Swallow 1 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 2 Carolina Chickadee X Carolina Wren X House Wren 2 Swainson's Thrush 2 Wood Thrush 1 American Robin X Northern Mockingbird 1 Brown Thrasher 1 Cedar Waxwing 30 Blue-winged Warbler 1 Northern Parula 8 Yellow Warbler 3 Chestnut-sided Warbler 1 Magnolia Warbler 2 Black-throated Blue Warbler 4 Yellow-rumped Warbler 10 Black-throated Green Warbler 3 Blackburnian Warbler 1 Blackpoll Warbler 6 Black-and-white Warbler 4 American Redstart 7 Prothonotary Warbler 1 Ovenbird 1 Northern Waterthrush 1 Common Yellowthroat 3 Canada Warbler 1 Summer Tanager 1 Scarlet Tanager 7 Eastern Towhee 2 Song Sparrow 2 White-throated Sparrow 1 Northern Cardinal X Rose-breasted Grosbeak 2 Indigo Bunting 6 Red-winged Blackbird X Common Grackle X Brown-headed Cowbird X Orchard Oriole 3 Baltimore Oriole 5 American Goldfinch X House Sparrow 3 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org/VA) ------ End of Forwarded Message 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.