Today Andrew Baldelli and I took a walk down Railroad Ditch in the Great
Dismal Swamp. Starting temperature was 34F, but it warmed up to a balmy 43
by the time we finished. It was sunny and beautiful with very little wind.
Highlights included six woodpecker species, a nice encounter with Rusty
Blackbirds, a couple of nice flocks of robins, bluebirds, and Hermit
Thrushes, and a Blue-headed Vireo. The walk was finished off with an
American Lady butterfly, a hardy lady indeed.
The complete ebird list of 39 species is below.
Robert L. Ake
6603 Catherine Street
Norfolk VA 23505
I'm doing an ABA Big Year in 2010 - If you'd like to follow along, my blog
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Black Vulture 6
Turkey Vulture 4
Bald Eagle 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk (Eastern) 1
Ring-billed Gull 30
Belted Kingfisher 1
Red-headed Woodpecker 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 2
Downy Woodpecker 2
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 3
Pileated Woodpecker 1
Eastern Phoebe 2
Blue-headed Vireo 1
Blue Jay 2
Carolina Chickadee 6
Tufted Titmouse 1
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
Brown Creeper 1
Carolina Wren 13
Winter Wren 4
Golden-crowned Kinglet 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 6
Eastern Bluebird 5
Hermit Thrush 12
American Robin 30
Gray Catbird 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 1
Pine Warbler 2
Eastern Towhee 4
Song Sparrow 11
Swamp Sparrow 9
White-throated Sparrow 43
Red-winged Blackbird 10
Rusty Blackbird 40
American Goldfinch 3
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)
