Birders,
Birds were plentiful along the Sky Meadows Bridle Trail this cool cloudy
morning. I think I stopped counting Common Yellowthroats and Eastern
Towhees! A good variety of sparrows. List follows:
Sky Meadows SP Bridle Trail, Fauquier, US-VA
Apr 25, 2015 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Protocol: Traveling
3.0 mile(s)
Comments: Cool cloudy morning.
36 species
Canada Goose 4
Mourning Dove 2
Red-headed Woodpecker 1 On a fence post in the field. Would have been
a great photo.
Red-bellied Woodpecker 3
Pileated Woodpecker 1
American Kestrel 1
Great Crested Flycatcher 2
Blue Jay 2
American Crow 2
Common Raven 2 Hanging around the shed and the copse of trees in the
center of the field. Nesting?
Tree Swallow 13
Barn Swallow 1
Carolina Chickadee 2
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 4
Eastern Bluebird 10
American Robin 8
Gray Catbird 1
Brown Thrasher 2
Northern Mockingbird 4
European Starling 4
Common Yellowthroat 11 Everywhere
Palm Warbler 4 Another missed photo op. On a bare branch so bright
against the gray sky.
Eastern Towhee 8
Field Sparrow 9
Vesper Sparrow 1
Savannah Sparrow 2
Grasshopper Sparrow 2
Song Sparrow 4
White-throated Sparrow 8
White-crowned Sparrow 7
Northern Cardinal 5
Red-winged Blackbird 13
Eastern Meadowlark 2
Common Grackle 6
American Goldfinch 4
View this checklist online at
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S23048380
This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)
Linda Millington
Upperville VA
