Sunday morning turned out to be very pleasant and had a couple nice
surprises for my while birding at Occoquan Bay NWR. Along the Belmont Bay
site 2 Laughing Gulls and a lingering Forsters Tern were seen and a little
further down the trial a Yellow-Billed Cuckoo was observed. Near the
observation platform just past the bird banding station a Yellow-breasted
Chat was seen before it disappeared in the dense shrubs he funniest
observation were 3 wild turkeys crossing the road. I did not know how funny
Wild Turkey can look when they run like mad with stiff necks. To bad that my
camera was too slow to capture the turkeys in action.
Gerco
Vienna, VA
Canada Goose 42
Mallard 2
Wild Turkey 3
Double-crested Cormorant 4
Great Blue Heron 2
Great Egret 2
Green Heron 3
Black Vulture 30
Turkey Vulture 1
Osprey 2
Bald Eagle 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 2
Laughing Gull 2
Ring-billed Gull 51
Forster's Tern 1
Rock Pigeon 44
Mourning Dove 12
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
Chimney Swift 26
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Belted Kingfisher 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker 4
Downy Woodpecker 3
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 2
Eastern Wood-Pewee 2
Eastern Phoebe 4
Blue Jay 56
American Crow 2
Fish Crow 1
Tree Swallow 36
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 4
Carolina Chickadee 4
Tufted Titmouse 3
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
Carolina Wren 3
House Wren 1
Eastern Bluebird 2
American Robin 43
Gray Catbird 23
Northern Mockingbird 17
Brown Thrasher 4
European Starling 47
Northern Parula 2
Palm Warbler 1
Black-and-white Warbler 1
Prothonotary Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 7
Yellow-breasted Chat 1
Eastern Towhee 1
Field Sparrow 2
Song Sparrow 2
Northern Cardinal 12
Blue Grosbeak 4
American Goldfinch 13
