Hi VA-Birders,
I took a surprisingly birdy walk today at Kent Gardens Park in McLean
(Fairfax County). Highlights included great looks at a Nashville warbler
foraging in brushy stuff, winter wren, kingfisher, brown creeper, and a
Catharus thrush that I think was a hermit due to flicking reddish tail. I'm
pretty color-blind so tail color is a tough field mark for me.
Peter Frechtel
Falls Church
Kent Gardens Park, Fairfax, US-VA
Oct 22, 2011 10:45 AM - 12:30 PM
Protocol: Traveling
3.0 mile(s)
Comments: from Great Falls St to Fox Sparrow Fence and back. There must
be some good berry trees around Westmoreland St - tons of robins, starlings,
yellow-rumps, cedar waxwings concentrated there.
28 species (+1 other taxa)
Turkey Vulture 1
Mourning Dove 8
Belted Kingfisher 1 pleasant surprise between Westmoreland St and
Beverly Ave bridge
Red-bellied Woodpecker 5
Downy Woodpecker 4
Northern Flicker 5
Blue Jay 2
American Crow 2
Carolina Chickadee 4
Tufted Titmouse 5
Brown Creeper 1 not far from Great Falls St
Carolina Wren 10 very vocal
Winter Wren 1 near Great Falls St in small tributary, very cooperative
Golden-crowned Kinglet 1 same area as brown creeper and winter wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 7
Hermit Thrush 1 not much spotting, but tail looked reddish and frequent
tail flicking. near moving truck ramp bridge
American Robin 75 common throughout, but especially just downstream
from Westmoreland St
Northern Mockingbird 1 just upstream from Westmoreland St
European Starling 50 all near Westmoreland St
Cedar Waxwing 5
Nashville Warbler 1 just downstream from Fox Sparrow Fence. great looks
at eye level and below. foraging with sparrows and r-c kinglets.
Yellow-rumped Warbler 10
warbler sp. 2 high in pine tree. Could have been yellow-rumps.
Eastern Towhee 3
Chipping Sparrow 2
Song Sparrow 5
White-throated Sparrow 20
Northern Cardinal 8
American Goldfinch 1
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