VA BIRDers,
Six participants enjoyed a chilly but still and sunny Easter Sunday morning
for the regular Sunday morning Field Trip at Dyke Marsh, sponsored by the
Friends of Dyke Marsh and open to all comers,
Highlights were four Spotted Sandpipers, numerous Gnatcatchers, many singing
Yellow-rumped Warblers, a Brown Thrasher, and four Palm Warblers, one
singing.
Canada Goose 20
Wood Duck 3
Mallard 12
Double-crested Cormorant 30
Great Blue Heron 2
Turkey Vulture 2
Osprey 14
Bald Eagle 2
American Coot 8
Spotted Sandpiper 4
Ring-billed Gull 60
Herring Gull 6
Great Black-backed Gull 2
Caspian Tern 12
Forster's Tern 2
Mourning Dove 8
Red-bellied Woodpecker 8
Downy Woodpecker 4
Northern Flicker 1
Eastern Phoebe 3
Blue Jay 2
American Crow 4
Fish Crow 8
Tree Swallow 25
N. Rough-winged Swallow 12
Barn Swallow 8
Carolina Chickadee 5
Tufted Titmouse 4
White-breasted Nuthatch 2
Carolina Wren 10
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 10 (many singing)
American Robin 16
Brown Thrasher 1
European Starling 30
Yellow-rumped Warbler 20
Palm Warbler 4
Eastern Towhee 2
Song Sparrow 8
Swamp Sparrow 3
White-throated Sparrow 4
Northern Cardinal 10
Red-winged Blackbird 80
Common Grackle 4
Brown-headed Cowbird 6
House Finch 2
American Goldfinch 20
House Sparrow 20
Peter Ross
Arlington
