Nice job Bob!
I am routing Roger Miller's Sunday Dyke Marsh Field Trip report from Utah
through your note.
Kurt
Howdy Kurt -
Five people came out in the sultry summer morning
to attend the 5 August 2007 Sunday morning walk
at Dyke Marsh.
Duration: 0800 - 1045
Temperature: 78 deg. F and rising.
A steady breeze from the East the entire time.
Tide low.
Birds Identified:
DC Cormorant 15
Grt. Blue Heron 13
Great Egret 13
Can. Goose 138
Mallard 88
Wood Duck 2
Turkey Vulture 2
Osprey 12 adults; 3 chicks, nearly fledged,
at Marina ramp;
1 adult seen eating a large orange
Koi while perched in a tree
Bald Eagle 2 adults
Ring-billed Gull 39
Herring Gull 1
Grt. Blk-backed Gull 1
A mixed flock of some 450 gulls was seen on the mud flats
adjacent to Jones Point - these birds were beyond the range
of our optics.....
Caspian Tern 4
Forster's Tern 2
Rock Pigeon 57
Mourning Dove 16
Chim. Swift 1
Red Belly WP 1
Downey WP 1
Flicker 4
Acadian Flycatcher 1
E. Kingbird 4
Barn Swallow 7
Blue Jay 4
Am. Crow 1
Fish Crow 1
Crow sp. 4
Car. Chickadee 3
Tufted Titmouse 2
Car. Wren 6
Marsh Wren 1 singing
Robin 4
Catbird 1
Mockingbird 3
Starling 88
Warbling Vireo 1
Blk.Thrtd.Grn. Warb. 1?
(based on song identified by Barbara Perry)
Cardinal 6
Song Sparrow 1
Red-winged Blackbird 18
C. Grackle 12
Cowbird 2
Orchard Oriole 1
Baltimore Oriole 1
Goldfinch 6
House Sparrow 13
End of Bird Report
Butterflies, Skippers and Dragonflies Noted:
Red Admiral
Monarch
E. Tiger Swallowtail, Yellow and Black forms
Spicebush Swallowtail
Orange Sulphur
Little Wood Satyr
Pearl Crescent
Cabbage White
Silver-spoted Skipper
Sachem Skipper
Nedems (sp?) Dragonfly
End of Report
From: Robert Beard <rbeard22205@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 2007/08/09 Thu PM 01:02:46 CDT
To: va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: KurtCapt87@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Va-bird] BLACK TERNS at Stone Bridge
Today around 10:30 am, two juvenile plummage BLACK TERNS were flying around
the bay on the Potomac River side opposite the stone bridge just south of
Alexandria VA (just before you reach Dyke Marsh.) They were both fairly far
away but were clearly gray terns with black patches around the head and
white areas on the head and neck. They flew and dipped as these terns would
around the matted vegetation in the bay.
Shorebirds were small in numbers with about 10 KILLDEER, 6 SEMIPALMATED
SANDPIPERS, 2 LEAST SANDPIPERS, and 1 GREATER YELLOWLEGS.
Lots of the ususal suspects of Gulls, terns, Ospreys (big numbers), BALD
EAGLES, and waterfowl were present as well.
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