On this cold and breezy morning, our group of five tallied 28 species. The
highlights of the day were an immature eagle soaring over the Potomac and a
phoebe hungered down close to the storage complex. Skunk cabbage, the first
harbinger of spring, is beginning to come up.
All are welcome to join this weekly Sunday walk that meets at 8:00 a.m. in the
visitor's center parking lot and moves toward the second overlook.
Well deserved thanks go to Ralph Wall, Sally Wechsler and Keith Huffman for
carrying on in my absence.
-- Marshall Rawson, McLean VA
Canada Goose 12
Mallard 1
Ring-necked Duck 40
Bufflehead 20
Common Merganser 5
Great Blue Heron 2
Black Vulture 2
Turkey Vulture 5
Bald Eagle 2
Ring-billed Gull 12
Mourning Dove 3
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 1
Pileated Woodpecker 2
Eastern Phoebe 1
Blue Jay 5
American Crow 3
Carolina Chickadee 6
Tufted Titmouse 10
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
Winter Wren 1
Carolina Wren 4
Eastern Bluebird 2
American Robin 20
Yellow-rumped Warbler 1
Dark-eyed Junco 18
Northern Cardinal 5
