Greetings from the coastal plain.
Saturday, the Middle Peninsula Bird Club invited the Northern Neck Audubon
Bird Club and Hampton Roads Bird Club to join us for a bird walk at
Elmington. This is a 488 acre historic farm and home on the North River,
Gloucester.
Weather was glorious and the many native plants and beautifully maintained
property were a delight to all of us.
Not all 26 attending saw all the birds so the following is a composite list
of the 40 species recorded:
Pine Warblers
Crows
White-eyed Virios (singing everywhere)
Blue Jays
Cardinals - many immature
Doves
Goldfinches
Carolina Wrens
Brown Thrasher
American Redstart
Titmouse
Field Sparrows and immature young
Catbirds
Pileated Woodpecker
Indigo Buntings - female and immature young
Bluebirds
Hummingbirds
Woodpecker - either a Hairy or a Downy
Kingfisher
Great Blue Heron
Chickadees
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Eastern Kingbird
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Eastern Towhee
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Mocking Bird
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Cormorants
Turkey Vultures
American Robins
Ospreys
Eagle
Black Vulture
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Eastern Phoebe
Laughing Gulls
Forster's Terns
And one Wild Turkey feather!
A recent re-print of "The Life Worth Living" Thomas Dixon, a 1905 account of
the outdoor life at Elmington and a literature jewel, is available from
booksellers.
