Yesterday was great at Leesylvania. Today was even better. The park was
swarming with migrants this morning. I tallied 23 species of warblers, with
the help of Peter Ross, Scott Priebe, and Toby Hardwick. Tennessee was the
most unusual, in that I don't see it often in the spring along the Potomac.
It was singing atop the hill near the ruins. Notable in numbers were
Canada, chestnut sided, blackpoll, black and white, and magnolia. What was
surprising to me was the lack of rose-breasted grosbeak and migrant
flycatchers. But the warblers kept us busy from one end of the park to the
other.
Before going to Leesylvania I went to Breckinridge Road, pre-dawn. No
whip-poor-wills, but I did see 4 species of thrush (wood, Swainson's,
gray-cheeked, veery) plus pine, hooded, and black-throated green warblers,
ones that I did not see in Leesylvania.
Marc Ribaudo
Leesylvania State Park, Prince William, Virginia, US
May 14, 2017 6:15 AM - 11:30 AM
Protocol: Traveling
5.0 mile(s)
83 species
Canada Goose 2
Double-crested Cormorant 3
Great Blue Heron 3
Black Vulture 2
Turkey Vulture 4
Osprey 2
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Bald Eagle 3
Red-shouldered Hawk 2
Solitary Sandpiper 2
Ring-billed Gull 3
Caspian Tern 1
Mourning Dove 4
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
Chimney Swift 30
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker 8
Downy Woodpecker 4
Hairy Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker 2
Pileated Woodpecker 2
Eastern Wood-Pewee 4
Acadian Flycatcher 1
Eastern Phoebe 1
Great Crested Flycatcher 7
Red-eyed Vireo 18
Blue Jay 10
American Crow 5
Fish Crow 3
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 4
Tree Swallow 12
Barn Swallow 20
Purple Martin 2
Carolina Chickadee 10
Tufted Titmouse 6
White-breasted Nuthatch 4
Carolina Wren 10
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 6
Eastern Bluebird 4
Swainson's Thrush 2
Wood Thrush 3
American Robin 12
Gray Catbird 3
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 4
Cedar Waxwing 40
Ovenbird 4
Worm-eating Warbler 1
Northern Waterthrush 2
Blue-winged Warbler 1
Black-and-white Warbler 12
Prothonotary Warbler 3
Tennessee Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 5
American Redstart 12
Cape May Warbler 2
Northern Parula 10
Magnolia Warbler 8
Bay-breasted Warbler 2
Blackburnian Warbler 3
Yellow Warbler 6
Chestnut-sided Warbler 8
Blackpoll Warbler 18
Black-throated Blue Warbler 6
Yellow-rumped Warbler 4
Yellow-throated Warbler 5
Prairie Warbler 1
Canada Warbler 6
Wilson's Warbler 2
Chipping Sparrow 3
White-throated Sparrow 2
Song Sparrow 1
Summer Tanager 1
Scarlet Tanager 8
Northern Cardinal 10
Blue Grosbeak 2
Indigo Bunting 2
Red-winged Blackbird 2
Common Grackle 24
Brown-headed Cowbird 3
Orchard Oriole 3
Baltimore Oriole 2
American Goldfinch 4
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http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S36837966
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