Our group of nine tallied 51 species. We had great looks at nesting
red-bellied woodpeckers
& great crested flycatchers feeding their young in the picnic area. The pair
of adult eagles were
soaring together while the three eaglets remained on the nest. Last year's
brood had fledged by
this time. Great blue heron broods seemed to have fledged as there herons
everywhere. We were
treated to long views of a pair of yellow-billed cuckoos and a singing indigo
bunting in the picnic area
and a Louisiana waterthrush still singing this week in the holding basin.
All are welcome to join this Sunday walk which meets at 8:00 am in the visitors
center courtyard. --
Marshall Rawson, McLean VA
Canada Goose 4
Wood Duck 1
American Black Duck 1
Mallard 2
Common Merganser 1
Double-crested Cormorant 5
Great Blue Heron 20
Black Vulture 5
Turkey Vulture 5
Bald Eagle 5
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Mourning Dove 1
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 2
Chimney Swift 10
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2
Downy Woodpecker 1
Pileated Woodpecker 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee 3
Acadian Flycatcher 4
Eastern Phoebe 1
Great Crested Flycatcher 2
Yellow-throated Vireo 1
Red-eyed Vireo 1
Blue Jay 6
American Crow 2
Fish Crow 1
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 2
Tree Swallow 16
Barn Swallow 1
Carolina Chickadee 3
Tufted Titmouse 6
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
Carolina Wren 2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 10
Wood Thrush 2
American Robin 3
European Starling 1
Cedar Waxwing 3
Northern Parula 2
Louisiana Waterthrush 2
Chipping Sparrow 2
Song Sparrow 1
Scarlet Tanager 2
Northern Cardinal 5
Indigo Bunting 1
Red-winged Blackbird 20
Common Grackle 30
Brown-headed Cowbird 1
Orchard Oriole 3
Baltimore Oriole 2
American Goldfinch 2
