A few pix from the birdwalk can be found here
http://wlb3.smugmug.com/Virginia-Parks/Dyke-Marsh-Wildlife-Preserve/9228073_ssvZ5/1420276990_VBgZPTw#1420275378_zX357hq
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Thanks, Ed, for leading us.
Cheers
Walt Barrows
Alexandria
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From: Kurt Gaskill <KurtCapt87@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 3:08 PM
Subject: [Va-bird] FW: FODM August 7 Birdwalk
To: VA-BIRD <va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
VA BIRDers,
A report from leader Ed Eder today.
Kurt
Friends of Dyke Marsh Sunday walk...
A group of 16 birders enjoyed a productive day viewing 53 species
including migrating shorebirds of the Hunting Creek mudflats. Close up
views of diving Caspian Terns, Forster's Terns, Ospreys and Baltimore
Orioles were among the highlights.
Birds located included;
25 DC cormorants
21 Great Blue herons
16 Great Egrets
1 Tundra Swan
60 Canada geese
2 Wood Ducks
110 Mallards
11 Osprey
4 Bald Eagles
2 American Coot
1 Turkey Vulture
2 Semipalmated Plover
6 KilLdeer
30 Semipalmated sandpipers
3 Greater Yellow legs
2 Lesser yellow legs
70 Laughing Gulls
110 Ring billed Gulls
26 Caspian Terns
15 Forster's Terns
4 Rock Doves
7 Mourning Doves
3 Red-bellied Woodpeckers
3 Downy Woodpeckers
! Northern Flicker
1 Eastern Wood Pewee
1 eastern Phoebe
6 Eastern Kingbirds
5 Northern Rough Winged Swallow
24 Barn Swallow
3 Cliff Swallow
1 Tree Swallow
3 Blue Jays
6 Fish Crow
3 Carolina Chickadee
3 Tufted Titmice
1 White BreastedNuthatch
6 Carolina Wrens
4 Blue Grey Gnatcatchers
40 European Starling
1 Red eyed vireo
3 Common Yellowthroat
1 Prothonotary Warbler
5 Northern Cardinal
2 Indigo bunting
1 Song Sparrow
5 Red winged BB
20 Common Grackle
1 Orchard Oriole
2 Baltimore Orioles
House Finch 3
American Goldfinch 8
House Sparrow 3
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