I visited Possum Pt. and Cockpit Pt. roads this morning with Kurt Gaskill.
Starting at about 6:15am, there was a lot of singing but not many migrants,
most of the songsters being residents. Nevertheless, we did have a successful
moring. I saw 93 species in this area. Warblers were northern parula, Cape
May (great looks), black-throated blue, yellow-rumped, yellow-throated,
prairie, palm, blackpoll, black-and-white, prothonotary, worm-eating (lots of
these guys), ovenbird, Louisiana waterthrush, common yellowthroat, hooded, and
yellow-breasted chat. Summer tanagers were numerous, along with orchard
oriole. We also has yellow-billed cuckoo, yellow-throated vireo, Swainson's
thrush, eastern wood pewee, acadian flycatcher, eastern kingbird (4 sitting
together on a fence, plus some others), solitary sandpiper, blue grosbeak,
indigo bunting, green heron, Baltimore oriole, cedar waxwing, and American
coot.
Along the road adjacent to Metz wetlands I heard a singing warbling vireo. An
afternoon visit to Occoquan Bay NWR added red-breasted merganser (beautiful
male), white-crowned sparrow, and eastern meadowlark.
Marc Ribaudo
Woodbridge
