One of the Richmond Audubon Birdathon
<http://www.richmondaudubon.org/BirdAThonhon.html> teams did their big
day last Saturday, May 15. Our theme this year was birding along the
James River. The Crazy Coots (Lewis Barnett, Kim Harrell, Laurie Kam,
Bob Schamerhorn and Pete Walker) started out in the James River Park
System in the city of Richmond, and then looped down Route 5, across the
Benjamin Harrison Bridge, and back in Route 10, ending up at Dutch Gap
Conservation Area. We traveled 87 miles, all within a 20 mile radius of
the State Capitol. We had a total of 108 species. Highlights were a 12
warbler morning between the 42nd Street and Reedy Creek entrances to
James River Park, two Peregrine Falcon sightings, one in downtown
Richmond, nesting Great Blue Herons and Great Egrets at the Pipeline
Walk segment of James River Park, a pair of Baltimore Orioles tending a
nest suspended over Tredegar Street near the Belle Isle footbridge,
multiple Red-headed Woodpeckers, a Yellow-breasted Chat and a very
cooperative Prairie Warbler at Crewes Channel, and some good shorebirds,
including a couple of female Wilson's Phalaropes at Shirley Plantation.
The complete list appears below.
Feel free to contact me for further information about supporting the RAS
Birdathon.
--
Lewis Barnett -- http://www.mathcs.richmond.edu/~lbarnett/
Species list:
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
American Black Duck
Mallard
Northern Bobwhite
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Green Heron
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
Peregrine Falcon
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Spotted Sandpiper
Solitary Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Least Sandpiper
Wilson's Phalarope
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Caspian Tern
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Barred Owl
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Acadian Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
White-eyed Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown-headed Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
House Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
Swainson's Thrush
Wood Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
European Starling
American Pipit
Cedar Waxwing
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler
Pine Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart
Prothonotary Warbler
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Common Yellowthroat
Canada Warbler
Yellow-breasted Chat
Summer Tanager
Scarlet Tanager
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Orchard Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
