[Va-bird] Dutch Gap this evening

  • From: "Janice Frye" <jjfdc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 22:10:14 -0400

A couple of hours (6-8pm) were pleasant and birdy with lots of song and good
looks.  The wind and frogs kept me from hearing much at the marsh.  The
bluff is fenced off and I only went as far as the Fishing Dock down the
trail behind the visitor center.  Total species 48, no Least bittern.

 

Canada goose with goslings

Wood ducks-2 pairs in the same viewing field with a green heron, another
pair flying

Great blue heron

Green heron

Black vulture

Turkey vulture

Osprey-heard

RS hawk-mobbed by red wings and a MODO (!)

Killdeer

Laughing gulls

Chimney swift

Red-bellied WP

Downy WP

Hairy WP

Pileated WP

E. wood pewee

Acadian flycatcher

Gr. Crested flycatcher

Eastern kingbird

Red-eyed vireo

Blue jay

Crow sp.

Purple martin

Tree swallow

N. rough-winged swallow

Bank swallow

Barn swallow

Car. Chickadee

Tufted titmouse

Car. Wren

Blue-gray gnatcatcher

E. bluebird

Am. Robin

N. mockingbird

Brown thrasher-very active on both sides of the fenced pond

Eu. starling

Yellow warbler

Yellow-throated warbler

Prothonotary warbler-several males in deep woods, one up close halfway down
the Fishing Dock trail

Kentucky warbler

Common yellowthroat

N. cardinal

Blue grosbeak

Indigo bunting

Red-winged blackbird

Common grackle

House finch

Am. goldfinch

 

 


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