Thanks to Kurt and Rich for organizing this
survey.
Observation date: 5/3/08
Notes: This was Flint Hill School,
OakMarr/Tattersall Park, and patches of
Difficult Run Stream Valley Park between Miller
Heights Rd and Lawyers Rd, Oakton.
Number of species: 75
Observers Fred Atwood, with Kevin Kolesnikoff and
Taamu Wuya in the morning.
Times
FLint Hill School and OakMarr/Tattersall
6:15-9:45
Samaga Rd area 10-15 to noon
Hunter's Valley to Lawyers 2:45-5:15
Samaga to Vale 5:30 to 6:30
Miller heights area 6:45-7:30
Separate location lists in Excel can be provided
if requested.
Totals were as follows:
Canada Goose 18
Wood Duck 4 (2 pair)
Mallard 4 (2 pair)
Great Blue Heron 4
Cooper's Hawk 1 OakMarr
Red-shouldered Hawk 6
Solitary Sandpiper 1 FHS
Mourning Dove 25
Great Horned Owl 1 Tattersall
Barred Owl 5 (2 hooting, and a different
adult hooting near nestbox with at least 2 big
chicks looking out)
Chimney Swift 7
Red-bellied Woodpecker 19
Downy Woodpecker 16
Hairy Woodpecker 9
Northern Flicker 12
Pileated Woodpecker 5
Acadian Flycatcher 2
Eastern Phoebe 3
Great Crested Flycatcher 11
Eastern Kingbird 7
White-eyed Vireo 4
Yellow-throated Vireo 1 Samaga
Blue-headed Vireo 1 FHS
Red-eyed Vireo 31
Blue Jay 41
American Crow 14
Fish Crow 28
Purple Martin 10 OakMarr golf course,
probably more theree but this is all we saw
Tree Swallow 5
Barn Swallow 2
Carolina Chickadee 40
Tufted Titmouse 47
White-breasted Nuthatch 6
Carolina Wren 27
House Wren 7
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 30, one was gathering
tent caterpillar silk for its nest
Eastern Bluebird 9
Swainson's Thrush 3 OakMarr and Miller
Heights
Wood Thrush 15
American Robin 44
Gray Catbird 18
Northern Mockingbird 9
Brown Thrasher 2 OakMarr
European Starling 25
Nashville Warbler 1 OakMarr
Northern Parula 11
Yellow Warbler 2 Samaga and OakMarr
Black-throated Blue Warbler 4
Yellow-rumped Warbler 41
Black-throated Green Warbler 2 Samaga and
OakMarr
Pine Warbler 1 OakMarr
Black-and-white Warbler 2 Samaga and OakMarr
American Redstart 2 Samaga and OakMarr
Ovenbird 2 OakMarr
Louisiana Waterthrush 8
Common Yellowthroat 7
Hooded Warbler 1 Samaga
Yellow-breasted Chat 1 Samaga
Scarlet Tanager 5
Eastern Towhee 8
Chipping Sparrow 18
Savannah Sparrow 1 FHS
Song Sparrow 8
Swamp Sparrow 2 Samaga and Gabrielson Gardens
White-throated Sparrow 11
Northern Cardinal 72
Indigo Bunting 1 Samaga
Red-winged Blackbird 8
Common Grackle 58
Brown-headed Cowbird 79, all from the bamboo
roost at FHS, probably more left before we
arrived.
Orchard Oriole 1 OakMarr
Baltimore Oriole 6 all at FHS
House Finch 13
American Goldfinch 28
House Sparrow 7
This report was generated automatically by eBird
v2(http://ebird.org)
Also seen: five-lined skink, lots of toad and
frog tadpoles, 12 chipmunks, 48 gray squirrels
(probably more), 31 white-tailed deer
Also heard: green frog, Cope's Gray Tree Frog
All the best
Fred
Frederick D. Atwood fredatwood@xxxxxxxxx
Flint Hill School, 10409 Academic Dr, Oakton, VA 22124
703-242-1675
http://www.agpix.com/fredatwood
http://www.flinthill.org
http://tea.armadaproject.org/tea_atwoodfrontpage.html
