The rain that was expected this morning ended by the start time for the
Northern Virginia Bird Club trip to Leesylvania State Park this morning, so
Dixie Sommers and I led 2 others on a very birdy walk around the picnic area
and boardwalk area. We tallied 55 species. Highlights were a common raven,
2 pine siskins in a large flock of goldfinches in the picnic area (we looked
hard for redpoll without success), a huge raft of canvasback (estimated at
700), and the expected but always great to see winter visitors of winter
wren, brown creeper, yellow-bellied sapsucker, both kinglets, 2 common loons
and 3 horned grebes, plus a nice assortment of waterfowl in the Potomac and
in Powell's Creek. The complete list is below.
Marc Ribaudo
Leesylvania State Park - CPW04, Prince William, US-VA
Jan 24, 2015 8:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Protocol: Traveling
2.5 mile(s)
Comments: Submitted from BirdLog NA for Android v1.9.6
55 species
Canada Goose 2
Tundra Swan 2
Gadwall 20
American Black Duck 15
Mallard 6
Northern Pintail 1
Canvasback 700
Redhead 5
Ring-necked Duck 1
Greater Scaup 1
Lesser Scaup 100
Bufflehead 35
Red-breasted Merganser 2
Ruddy Duck 150
Common Loon 2
Horned Grebe 3
Double-crested Cormorant 10
Great Blue Heron 3
Bald Eagle 11
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Ring-billed Gull 50
Herring Gull (American) 2
Great Black-backed Gull 1
Belted Kingfisher 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 18
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 2
Downy Woodpecker 8
Hairy Woodpecker 3
Northern Flicker 5
Pileated Woodpecker 4
Blue Jay 17
American Crow 7
Common Raven 1
Carolina Chickadee 20
Tufted Titmouse 10
White-breasted Nuthatch 5
Brown Creeper 3
Winter Wren 1
Carolina Wren 8
Golden-crowned Kinglet 4
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2
Eastern Bluebird 15
Hermit Thrush 1
American Robin 7
Northern Mockingbird 3
European Starling 26
Yellow-rumped Warbler 3
Song Sparrow 1
White-throated Sparrow 22
Dark-eyed Junco 50
Northern Cardinal 14
Red-winged Blackbird 2
House Finch 5
Pine Siskin 2
American Goldfinch 50
View this checklist online at
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S21517839
This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)
