The highlight of my morning was a juvenile King Rail at the end of Easy Road.
It stay out in the open for about 10 or 15 minutes while I watched it, and did
not flush until I started walking down the road and pushed it away from the
march and into the woods. It was an awkward flight back to the reeds. The tide
was very high. This was a very drab gray birds and I did not see any orange on
it, so I guess it could have been a Clapper Rail. Do they breed anywhere
nearby? The photos I took with my iPhone came out mostly as a dark silhouette.
Phil
Phil Kenny
1731 Killarney Court
Vienna, VA 22182-2133
philkenny@xxxxxxxxxxx
H: 703-255-5423
C: 571-226-6690
Occoquan Bay NWR - CPW02, Prince William, US-VA
Jun 24, 2012 7:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Protocol: Traveling
3.0 mile(s)
60 species
Wood Duck 1
Mallard 1
Northern Bobwhite 6, many heard, one seen
Wild Turkey 3 adults seen
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Great Blue Heron 9
Great Egret 1 flyover
Black Vulture 3
Turkey Vulture 1
Osprey 5
Bald Eagle 3
King Rail 1
Rock Pigeon 1
Mourning Dove 10
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 2 Heard
Chimney Swift 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker 3
Downy Woodpecker 3
Northern Flicker 2
Pileated Woodpecker 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee 2
Acadian Flycatcher 3
Eastern Phoebe 6
Great Crested Flycatcher 2
Eastern Kingbird 4
White-eyed Vireo 1
Warbling Vireo 2
Red-eyed Vireo 3
American Crow 12
Fish Crow 1
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 12
Purple Martin 4
Tree Swallow 12
Barn Swallow 12
Carolina Chickadee 4
Tufted Titmouse 2
Carolina Wren 4
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 4
Eastern Bluebird 15
American Robin 25
Gray Catbird 2
Northern Mockingbird 12
Brown Thrasher 6
European Starling 35
Cedar Waxwing 5
Common Yellowthroat 15
Northern Parula 1
Yellow Warbler 2
Prairie Warbler 6
Yellow-breasted Chat 6
Eastern Towhee 2
Field Sparrow 4
Northern Cardinal 5
Indigo Bunting 6
Red-winged Blackbird 6
Common Grackle 5
Brown-headed Cowbird 2
Orchard Oriole 12
House Finch 2
American Goldfinch 8
This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)
