Weather limited attendance of the weekly Friends of Dyke Marsh birdwalk to
myself and Ed Eder, who I ran into after I started to explore the marina. It
was raining at the start but it stopped after a while. Birding was very slow,
and activity did not pick up much after the rain stopped, much to my surprise.
However, there were a few intresting birds about. Two least bitterns were
flying over the marsh, I heard a Canada warbler (sort of garbled song), and
also a couple of marsh wrens. Here is the full list:
Canada goose
mallard
double-crested cormorant
least bittern
great blue heron
great egret
osprey
bald eagle
American coot
laughing gull
ring-billed gull
Caspian tern
mourning dove
chimney swift
ruby-throated hummingbird
red-bellied woodpecker
downy woodpecker
northern flicker
eastern wood pewee
eastern kingbird
fish crow
purple martin
tree swallow
barn swallow
carolina chickadee
turfted titmouse
Carolina wren
house wren
marsh wren
blue-gray gnatcatcher
American robin
gray catbird
European starling
common yellowthroat
Canada warbler
song sparrow
northern cardinal
indigo bunting
red-winged blackbird
common grackle
Baltimore oriole
house finch
American goldfinch
house sparrow
Marc Ribaudo
Woodbridge
