I did my monthly five-mile walk around the Noland Trail of the Mariner's Museum
Park in Newport News today. Highlights: a Black-and-White Warbler
(great-looking individual) and a Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher. Also, three species of
Nuthatch was nice, lots of big blackbird/robin/waxwing flocks, plus decent
numbers of Hooded Mergansers and Pied-Billed Grebes for the lake. Still
waiting for the Ring-Necked Duck numbers of last winter, surprised not to find
any today.
Nick Flanders
Newport News
Location: Mariner's Museum Park.Observation date: 12/28/07Number of species:
46 Canada Goose 2Mallard 68Hooded Merganser 43Ruddy Duck 3Pied-billed Grebe
13Double-crested Cormorant 61Great Blue Heron 13Turkey Vulture 5Sharp-shinned
Hawk 1Cooper's Hawk 1Red-tailed Hawk 1Ring-billed Gull 135Mourning Dove
1Red-bellied Woodpecker 9Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 2Downy Woodpecker 2Hairy
Woodpecker 2Northern Flicker 2Pileated Woodpecker 1Blue Jay 3American Crow
3Carolina Chickadee 25Tufted Titmouse 26Red-breasted Nuthatch 1White-breasted
Nuthatch 1Brown-headed Nuthatch 1Brown Creeper 6Carolina Wren 12Winter Wren
1Golden-crowned Kinglet 11Ruby-crowned Kinglet 12Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1American Robin 206Cedar Waxwing 48Yellow-rumped Warbler 11Pine Warbler
1Black-and-white Warbler 1Eastern Towhee 1Song Sparrow 5White-throated Sparrow
9Dark-eyed Junco 6Northern Cardinal 7Red-winged Blackbird 397Common Grackle
150House Finch 3American Goldfinch 19
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