Ten members of the Lynchburg Bird Club birded at Red Hill Saturday morning,
April 25, 2009. The temperature rose more quickly than expected; it was very
hot walking back up from the river around noon. The heat bothered the birders
but didn’t seem to affect the birds as we continued to see and hear species
even while we ate lunch in the shade near the visitor center. We saw/heard 65
species including:
· four raptors: Sharp-shinned Hawk, Red-shouldered Hawk, Broad-winged
Hawk & 1 Red-tailed Hawk – or six raptors counting vultures!
· four vireos: White-eyed, Yellow-throated, Blue-headed, & FOS Red-eyed
· other FOS (at least for me) species: Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Eastern
Kingbird, Wood Thrush, Northern Parula, Ovenbird, Summer Tanager, Grasshopper
Sparrow, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Indigo Bunting, & Baltimore Oriole
· small groups of Blue Jays were seen flying over from south to north
all day – we conservatively estimated that we saw at least 200
· a FOY (for me) Horned Lark
· not as many warblers as expected as we only saw: Northern Parula,
Yellow-rumped Warbler, Yellow-throated Warbler, Pine Warbler, Black-and-white
Warbler, Ovenbird, & Common Yellowthroat
Complete species list from eBird follows.
Rexanne Bruno
Lynchburg, VA
PS And I had a FOS Gray Catbird in our yard this morning.
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Location: Red Hill Shrine
Observation date: 4/25/09
Number of species: 65
Canada Goose 2
Wild Turkey 1
Double-crested Cormorant 7
Great Blue Heron 1
Black Vulture 3
Turkey Vulture 10
Sharp-shinned Hawk 2
Red-shouldered Hawk 2
Broad-winged Hawk 2
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Killdeer 1
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Rock Pigeon 4
Mourning Dove 2
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
Chimney Swift 2
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Downy Woodpecker 2
Pileated Woodpecker 2
Eastern Phoebe 1
Eastern Kingbird 1
White-eyed Vireo 1
Yellow-throated Vireo 1
Blue-headed Vireo 1
Red-eyed Vireo 1
Blue Jay 200
American Crow 3
Horned Lark 1
Purple Martin 1
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 2
Carolina Chickadee 1
Tufted Titmouse 1
Carolina Wren 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 4
Eastern Bluebird 7
Wood Thrush 1
American Robin 1
Northern Mockingbird 1
Brown Thrasher 2
European Starling 2
Cedar Waxwing 22
Northern Parula 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler 10
Yellow-throated Warbler 4
Pine Warbler 2
Black-and-white Warbler 1
Ovenbird 1
Common Yellowthroat 3
Summer Tanager 3
Eastern Towhee 1
Chipping Sparrow 11
Field Sparrow 2
Grasshopper Sparrow 2
White-throated Sparrow 3
Northern Cardinal 3
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 2
Indigo Bunting 3
Red-winged Blackbird 2
Eastern Meadowlark 2
Brown-headed Cowbird 2
Orchard Oriole 2
Baltimore Oriole 6
American Goldfinch 4
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org/VA)
