Fellow birders,
Seven persons joined me for the weekly walk at Dyke Marsh
this morning, which starts at 8 each Sunday morning from the south Bell
Haven parking lot off the GW Parkway and is free to all. Highlights of a
misty morning included seeing almost 100 Great Egrets and Great Blue Herons,
two Osprey, 7 Bald Eagles, over 75 Forster's Terns and nine warbler species.
Ducks were present in good numbers, most notably Blue-winged Teal, Northern
Shoveler and Gadwall. Sparrows consisted of a single well-seen Swamp
Sparrow.
Set forth below is a list of the 56 species seen on the walk
with estimated numbers.
Canada Goose - 50
Gadwall - 25
Mallard - 100+
Blue-winged Teal - 75
Northern Shoveler - 30
Northern Pintail - 2
Pied-billed Grebe - 12
Double-crested Cormorant - 12
Great Blue Heron - 20
Great Egret - 76
Green Heron - 2
Osprey - 2
Bald Eagle - 7
Cooper's Hawk - 1
Accipiter species - 1
American Coot - 3
Greater Yellowlegs - 5
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1
Spotted Sandpiper - 1
Laughing Gull - 75+
Ring-billed Gull - 300+
Herring Gull - 8
Great-blacked Back Gull - 2
Caspian Tern - 10
Forster's Tern - 75+
Mourning Dove - 1
Belted Kingfisher - 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4
Downy Woodpecker - 3
Hairy Woodpecker - 1
Northern Flicker -3
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 2
Red-eyed Vireo - 2
Blue Jay 20
American Crow - 8
Fish Crow - 4
Crow species - 5
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 4
Carolina Chickadee - 6
Tufted Titmouse - 8
White-breasted Nuthatch - 3
Carolina Wren - 7
American Robin - 50+
Gray Catbird - 9
European Starling - 40+
Northern Parula - 2
Yellow Warbler - 1
Magnolia Warbler - 4
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 3
Palm Warbler - 2
Blackpoll Warbler - 2
Black-and-white Warbler - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 1
Canada Warbler - 1
Swamp Sparrow - 1
Northern Cardinal - 12
Red-winged Blackbird - 50+
American Goldfinch - 3
Gerry Hawkins
Arlington, VA
