Eighteen birders led by Elton Morel and Frances Raskin found 68 bird species on
a cold and windy Saturday morning at Occoquan NWR. Highlights were 2
Bonaparte's Gulls flying over Belmont Bay, flybys of both Northern Rough-winged
and Tree Swallows, several good looks at Golden-crowned Kinglets and many Cedar
Waxwings, a Winter Wren, a Palm Warbler near the end of Easy Road, excellent
scope views of an immature White-crowned Sparrow on Delta Road near the
junction with Charlie Road, and a brief sighting of a Northern Parula on Deep
Hole Road on the NE side of the junction with Easy Road. Many thanks go to
Marc Ribaudo and Linda Chittum for spotting some good birds for us.
Elton Morel
Arlington, VA
Occoquan Bay NWR - CPW02, Prince William, US-VA
Nov 3, 2012 7:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Protocol: Traveling
2.5 mile(s)
Comments: NVBC walk.
68 species (+1 other taxa)
Canada Goose 50
Wood Duck 1 Flyby.
Gadwall 30
American Black Duck 25
Mallard 6 Flyovers.
Northern Pintail 3 Fly over with two Mallards.
Ring-necked Duck 1
Lesser Scaup 100
Bufflehead 5
Ruddy Duck 50
Pied-billed Grebe 12
Double-crested Cormorant 10
Great Blue Heron 4
Black Vulture 4
Turkey Vulture 15
Northern Harrier 1 Earl morning flyby.
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Cooper's Hawk 1
Bald Eagle 3
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Heard only.
Red-tailed Hawk 2
American Coot 400
Bonaparte's Gull 2 Flyby on Belmont Bay.
Laughing Gull 50 Large flock resting on sand spit off Belmont Bay with other
gulls.
Ring-billed Gull 30
Herring Gull 8
Great Black-backed Gull 12
Forster's Tern 3
Mourning Dove 5
Belted Kingfisher 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker 5
Downy Woodpecker 4
Northern Flicker 12
Eastern Phoebe 1
Blue Jay 4
American Crow 10
Fish Crow 3
crow sp. 25
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 2 Flyby of two brown-backed swallows with dirty
grayish throats.
Tree Swallow 3 Two flybys of two birds a then a single of swallows with bright
white underparts.
Carolina Chickadee 4
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
Winter Wren 1 Heard only.
Carolina Wren 6
Golden-crowned Kinglet 6
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 3
Eastern Bluebird 25
American Robin 75
Northern Mockingbird 3
European Starling 200
Cedar Waxwing 50
Northern Parula 1
Found near the junction of Deep Hole Road and Easy Road. Saw a small,
short-tailed bird flyby me and land in a tree - first thought it would be a
Winter Wren, but when it finally showed itself it was a warbler with a bright
yellow throat and breast, partial breast band, white underparts below the
breast, yellow lower mandible, dark upper mandible, incomplete eye ring, double
white wing bars on dark wings, short tail. Unfortunately, this bird quickly
disappeared and was not refound.
Palm Warbler 1 Nearly at end of Easy Road.
Yellow-rumped Warbler 40
Eastern Towhee 2
Field Sparrow 15
Savannah Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 30
Swamp Sparrow 8
White-throated Sparrow 20
White-crowned Sparrow 1
Dark-eyed Junco 1
Northern Cardinal 8
Red-winged Blackbird 40
Rusty Blackbird 6
Common Grackle 1
Brown-headed Cowbird 2
House Finch 1
American Goldfinch 8
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