Eight birders joined Marc Ribaudo and me to bird Occoquan NWR this morning.
It was a beautiful morning and the refuge was generally quite birdy. Best
birds included a pair of early Common Goldeneye on the Belmont Bay side and
a Peregrine Falcon sitting on a piling in the same area. There were a great
many ducks in Belmont Bay but most were too far away to identify.
Also of interest was an unusually large number of pied-billed grebes (100 or
so).
Location: Occoquan Bay NWR
Observation date: 11/24/07
Notes: NVABC walk led by Marc Ribaudo and Steve Williams. Eight
observers. Temperature at 8:00AM about 30F. Mostly sunny and still. Wind
picked up a bit after a few hours.
Number of species: 64
Canada Goose 100
Wood Duck 8
Gadwall 4
American Wigeon 4
American Black Duck 75
Mallard 125
Lesser Scaup 12
Bufflehead 80
Common Goldeneye 2
Hooded Merganser 32
Red-breasted Merganser 1
Ruddy Duck 50
Pied-billed Grebe 100
Double-crested Cormorant 3
Great Blue Heron 7
Turkey Vulture 5
Bald Eagle 12
Northern Harrier 1
Cooper's Hawk 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 3
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Peregrine Falcon 1
American Coot 50
Bonaparte's Gull 12
Ring-billed Gull 200
Herring Gull 7
Great Black-backed Gull 10
Forster's Tern 4
Mourning Dove 2
Belted Kingfisher 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 6
Downy Woodpecker 3
Northern Flicker 15
Blue Jay 20
American Crow 15
Fish Crow 12
Carolina Chickadee 10
Tufted Titmouse 4
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
Carolina Wren 8
Winter Wren 2
Golden-crowned Kinglet 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2
Eastern Bluebird 30
American Robin 35
Northern Mockingbird 8
European Starling 70
American Pipit 1
Cedar Waxwing 40
Yellow-rumped Warbler 8
Eastern Towhee 2
American Tree Sparrow 1
Field Sparrow 2
Savannah Sparrow 3
Song Sparrow 40
Swamp Sparrow 8
White-throated Sparrow 20
Dark-eyed Junco 6
Northern Cardinal 30
Red-winged Blackbird 25
Eastern Meadowlark 3
Rusty Blackbird 6
House Finch 10
American Goldfinch 12
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