On this beautiful morning our group of eighteen tallied 32 species.
Highlights included a brown creeper
and ruby-crowned kinglet. On the river were common mergansers and black ducks
with mallards in the clay pond. All are welcome to join this Sunday walk that
meets at 8:00 am near the vistors center coutryard which can be delayed by
birds in the parking lot. -- Marshall Rawson, McLean VA
Canada Goose 13
American Black Duck 7
Mallard 5
Common Merganser 7
Great Blue Heron 1
Black Vulture 30
Turkey Vulture 20
Red-tailed Hawk 3
Mourning Dove 2
Belted Kingfisher 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2
Downy Woodpecker 2
Hairy Woodpecker 3
Northern Flicker 2
Pileated Woodpecker 2
Blue Jay 6
American Crow 6
Carolina Chickadee 12
Tufted Titmouse 40
White-breasted Nuthatch 8
Brown Creeper 1
Carolina Wren 7
Winter Wren 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 5
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
Eastern Bluebird 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler 14
Song Sparrow 3
White-throated Sparrow 6
Dark-eyed Junco 25
Northern Cardinal 4
American Goldfinch 1
