Location: Woodlands and meadows, southwesternwouthwestern Loudoun
Countys Date: 5/10/08
Notes:
The cool, wet weather seemed to put a damper on bird song in my
neighborhood yesterday also. I had two highlights; a singing
Philadelphia vireo was first I'd seen in perhaps 25 years in northern
Virginia. Only that bird and my FOS bay-breasted warbler were
surprizes.
I saw one brown thrush and although it wasn't a wood thrush, I
couldn't see it adequately to ID it given light or lack of it, the
density of the vegetation as well as an impatient border collie waitng
for me to put down the binoculars and get moving.
The major woodlot on this walking loop was heavily and sloppily logged
in January and February so catbirds and towhees may be replacing a good
number of the neotrops that formerly nested here. Possible fly over Am
bittern but had no color at all, only outline and its appearance as
being significantly larger than nearby nesting green herons. The area
includes the St Louis sewage ponds, two small woodland streams and
perhaps 80 acres of meadow and abandoned hayfield.
The Baltimore oriole, rose-breasted grosbeak and singing white-
throated sparrow were yard birds. The grosbeak has been in our
certified habitat for at least three days, frequenting feeders and
singing a rather distinctive and slow song from our wild black cherry
and red maple trees.
Craig Tufts
Number of species: 52
Canada Goose 2
Green Heron 2
Turkey Vulture 3
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Mourning Dove 5
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 3
Downy Woodpecker 2
Pileated Woodpecker 1
Acadian Flycatcher 2
Eastern Phoebe 1
Great Crested Flycatcher 5
Philadelphia Vireo 1
Red-eyed Vireo 3
Blue Jay 3
American Crow 8
Fish Crow 2
Tree Swallow 2
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 3
Carolina Chickadee 5
Tufted Titmouse 2
White-breasted Nuthatch 2
Carolina Wren 1
House Wren 2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 3
Eastern Bluebird 1
Gray Catbird 14
Northern Mockingbird 2
Brown Thrasher 1
European Starling 7
Yellow Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 2
Bay-breasted Warbler 1
American Redstart 1
Louisiana Waterthrush 1
Common Yellowthroat 5
Scarlet Tanager 1
Eastern Towhee 3
Chipping Sparrow 5
Field Sparrow 6
Song Sparrow 2
White-throated Sparrow 1
Northern Cardinal 6
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1
Red-winged Blackbird 3
Eastern Meadowlark 1
Common Grackle 9
Brown-headed Cowbird 12
Baltimore Oriole 2
House Finch 7
American Goldfinch 18
House Sparrow 1
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