Va birders,
I had yet another great morning in Difficult Run Stream Valley Park
that was highlighted by a pair of Common Ravens (first for the park
and county (for me)) that stayed around calling for about 30 mins. and
a beautiful adult male Baltimore Oriole (First for this area of the
park). List below:
Nick Newberry
Fairfax County
Difficult Run Stream Valley Park, Fairfax, US-VA
Aug 30, 2011 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.2 mile(s)
Comments: Biked to flood plain
Beautiful Morning, not a cloud in the sky
Other:
Monarch-1 Hight Fly over
Northern Pearly-Eye-1
30 species (+2 other taxa)
Great Blue Heron 1
Black Vulture 12
Red-shouldered Hawk 4
Chimney Swift 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 3
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2
Downy Woodpecker 3
Northern Flicker 2
Eastern Wood-Pewee 2
Empidonax sp. 3
Great Crested Flycatcher 3
Red-eyed Vireo 4
Blue Jay 2
American Crow 12
Common Raven 2 Heard constantly for about 30 minutes.
Took one video of their calls
Much larger than the near-by crows
Did not associate with the crows
Diamond shaped tail not seen very well
One picture taken
Carolina Chickadee 3
White-breasted Nuthatch 2
Carolina Wren 2
House Wren 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2
Eastern Bluebird 8
Wood Thrush 1
American Robin 2
Gray Catbird 2
Black-and-white Warbler 1
Magnolia Warbler 1
Chestnut-sided Warbler 2
Canada Warbler 1
warbler sp. 1 Lots of white across the bottom of the tail.
Probably magnolia
Northern Cardinal 8
Baltimore Oriole 1 Beautiful bird only seen flying but just
stunning!
American Goldfinch 8
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2 (http://ebird.org)
