Our group of eleven tallied 42 species (+1 other taxa). The highlights of the
day were a very cooperative (sleepy) barred owl on a sunnybranch in the holding
basin area and the pair of eagles starting to repair their nest on Conn
Island.Today marks the beginning of duckseason for us as buffleheads and a
hooded merganser join our usual complement of mallards, black ducks and common
mergansers on the Potomac above the falls. All are welcome to join this
regular Sunday walk that meets at 8:00am in the visitors center parking lot.
-- Marshall Rawson, McLean
Canada Goose 12
American Black Duck 6
Mallard 10
Bufflehead 3
Hooded Merganser 1
Common Merganser 4
Pied-billed Grebe 2
Great Blue Heron 1
Black Vulture 40
Turkey Vulture 10
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Bald Eagle 2
Red-shouldered Hawk 2
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Ring-billed Gull 1
Barred Owl 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 6
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 4
Downy Woodpecker 12
Hairy Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker 5
Pileated Woodpecker 3
Blue Jay 4
American Crow 1
Fish Crow 1
crow sp. 3
Carolina Chickadee 12
Tufted Titmouse 20
White-breasted Nuthatch 12
Brown Creeper 5
Winter Wren 1
Carolina Wren 3
Golden-crowned Kinglet 1
Eastern Bluebird 8
European Starling 5
Cedar Waxwing 36
Yellow-rumped Warbler 8
Dark-eyed Junco 4
White-throated Sparrow 6
Song Sparrow 5
Northern Cardinal 4
Common Grackle 200
American Goldfinch 6
