[Va-bird] Great Falls National Park (VA) on 5/18/08

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  • Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 20:44:35 EDT

Our group of seventeen birders  spotted 69 species.  Highlights included a 
good look at a nuthatch  family, an olive-sided flycatcher in the picnic area, 
LA waterthrush family, an  eye level Canada warbler and roughwinged swallows' 
nest building.  The  Sunday walk meets at 8:00am in the visitor's center 
courtyard.  All are  welcome. -- Marshall Rawson, McLean VA
 

Canada Goose     15
Mallard      10
Double-crested Cormorant     8
Great Blue Heron   8
Green Heron     1
Black-crowned  Night-Heron     1
Black Vulture     5
Turkey  Vulture     9
Osprey     1
Spotted  Sandpiper     1
Mourning Dove      3
Yellow-billed Cuckoo     5
Barred Owl      1
Common Nighthawk     1
Chimney Swift      11
Ruby-throated Hummingbird     2
Belted Kingfisher   1
Red-bellied Woodpecker     4
Downy  Woodpecker     3
Northern Flicker      1
Pileated Woodpecker     2
Olive-sided Flycatcher   1
Eastern Wood-Pewee     8
Great Crested  Flycatcher     15
Eastern Kingbird      4
Yellow-throated Vireo     2
Blue-headed Vireo   1
Red-eyed Vireo     20
Blue Jay   7
American Crow     4
Purple Martin   9
Tree Swallow     6
Northern Rough-winged  Swallow     50
Barn Swallow     4
Carolina  Chickadee     6
Tufted Titmouse      6
White-breasted Nuthatch     7
Carolina Wren   3
Eastern Bluebird     2
Veery   2
Swainson's Thrush     1
Wood Thrush   5
American Robin     8
Northern  Mockingbird     1
European Starling      3
Cedar Waxwing     40
Northern Parula      5
Chestnut-sided Warbler     1
Magnolia Warbler   2
Black-throated Blue Warbler      3
Yellow-rumped Warbler     5
Bay-breasted Warbler   2
Blackpoll Warbler     1
Worm-eating  Warbler     1
Ovenbird     1
Louisiana  Waterthrush     4
Canada Warbler      1
Scarlet Tanager     8
Chipping Sparrow      1
Song Sparrow     1
Northern Cardinal      6
Rose-breasted Grosbeak     1
Indigo Bunting   1
Red-winged Blackbird     2
Common  Grackle     10
Brown-headed Cowbird      5
Orchard Oriole     1
Baltimore Oriole      6
American Goldfinch     6



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