Gentle Readers,
Fall has come to Huntley Meadows Park, or a least the beginning of Fall
migration has become evident. For the second week in a row Spotted Sandpipers
have been at Huntley Meadows Park. Today, August 2, 2004, when Mary Floyd led
a group of 13 birders on the Monday Morning Birdwalk from 0700 to 0915, a
female Prairie Warbler was also seen. The Glossy Ibis has also been present at
the Park for several weeks.
Number Common Name
3 Great Blue Heron
1 Great Egret
1 Green Heron
1 Glossy Ibis
59 Canada Goose
14 Mallard
1 Osprey
2 Spotted Sandpiper
1 Mourning Dove
4 Yellow-billed Cuckoo
2 Barred Owl
6 Chimney Swift
1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1 Belted Kingfisher
4 Red-bellied Woodpecker
3 Downy Woodpecker
1 Hairy Woodpecker
1 Northern Flicker
4 Eastern Wood-Pewee
2 Acadian Flycatcher
2 Eastern Phoebe
30 Barn Swallow
3 Carolina Chickadee
1 Tufted Titmouse
2 White-breasted Nuthatch
6 Carolina Wren
4 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2 Eastern Bluebird
1 American Robin
9 Gray Catbird
1 Brown Thrasher
2 Red-eyed Vireo
1 Prairie Warbler
2 Common Yellowthroat
1 Scarlet Tanager
4 Northern Cardinal
4 Indigo Bunting
1 Song Sparrow
16 Common Grackle
30 Red-winged Blackbird
30 American Goldfinch
Huntley Meadows Park can be reached from the Beltway by driving south on US
Route 1 approximately three miles to Lockheed Boulevard. Turn right on
Lockheed Boulevard and proceed to the intersection of Lockheed and Harrison
Lane. The Park entrance is on the left.
The regularly scheduled Monday Morning Birdwalk is open to all; the group meets
at 0700 in the Visitor's Center Parking Lot.
For information about this and other programs at Huntley Meadows Park, please
call the Staff at 703-768-2525.
Frederic D. Bogar
Park Volunteer
703-768-3793
Alexandria, VA
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