I have one decent photo of the Prothonotary along with some other
recent bird photos at:
http://www.uberlarry.smugmug.com/gallery/1398269_iJSYP#293600344_Rv9eL
I also have an unusual shot of a chipmunk carrying a dead mouse. Does
anyone know what's going on here? Are chipmunks ever carnivorous?
Maybe the chipmunk is planning to line his nest with mouse fur?
http://uberlarry.smugmug.com/gallery/2968729_ogXjH#293608594_bT3Si
Larry Meade
Vienna, VA
-----Original Message-----
From: Gerco Hoogeweg <gercoh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Va-Bird (E-mail) <va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sun, 11 May 2008 6:01 pm
Subject: [Va-bird] Friends of Dyke Marsh - Prothonotary warblers
excitement
The regular Sunday
morning (8am) Field Trip to Dyke Marsh, sponsored by the Friends of
Dyke Marsh
for the last 18 yrs or so and open to all participants met today at the
picnic
area under an overcast sky. The trip was led by Larry Meade and myself.
18
participants showed up for a nice, but wet walk. Well, at least my
feet
were soaking wet by the time we made it to the marina. Our highlight
was "rescue the Prothonotary Warbler" at the marina. Initially we
found a single Prothonotary Warbler at the trailers right at the
beginning of the marina. The bird kept flying from boat trailer to boat
trailer and at one point in time disappeared in to an open hole in one
of the
front boat supports on a trailer. Nesting?? was the big question. We
never were
able to confirm this. We studied the bird for a while and noticed that
the
bird remained in the area, despite that 18 of us were watching it from
close
distance. One of the participants suddenly noticed a second
Prothonotary Warbler
trying to get out of an old boat!!! This bird kept flying into the
windows.
Obviously the bird had not figured out what glass was. Fortunately the
door to cabin was unlocked was and one of us opened all the windows
so the bird could escape. It was very nice to see these warblers at
close
distance. Deciding to give the warblers a little break we moved on. We
saw
plenty of Orioles, both Orchard and Baltimore, got some good looks of a
Warbling
Vireo and listened to a Chestnut-sided Warbler. We briefly spotted a
late
Ruby-crowned Kinglet. A pair of Eastern Kingbird was bringing nesting
materials
to a tree along the river and the first ducklings were seen. Both
Solitary
and Spotted Sandpipers were seen. A pair of Spotted Sandpipers was
foraging in
the wet area next to the parking lot. A single male Lesser Scaup was
briefly seen at the Potomac river. A pair of Woodducks was reported
just
upstream of the picnic area but we did not see them. We ended up seeing
close to
60 species.
Larry or I will
post some pictures from the Prothonotary Warblers later.
Gerco
Vienna,
VA
Number of species: 58
Canada Goose 15
Mallard 30 (with
young)
Lesser Scaup 1
Red-breasted Merganser 3
Double-crested Cormorant 13
Great Blue Heron 9
Osprey 10 (4 on 2
nests)
Cooper's Hawk 2
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Killdeer 1
Spotted Sandpiper 4
Solitary Sandpiper
3
Laughing Gull 5
Ring-billed Gull 2
Rock Pigeon 7
Mourning Dove 12
Chimney Swift 32
Belted Kingfisher 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 3
Downy Woodpecker 2
Great Crested Flycatcher 2
Eastern Kingbird 2
(with nesting materials)
Warbling Vireo 2
Red-eyed Vireo 7
Blue Jay 4
American Crow 4
Fish Crow 1
Purple Martin 2
Tree Swallow 10
Barn Swallow 10
Carolina Chickadee 2
(with some food in bill)
Tufted Titmouse 8
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
Carolina Wren 12
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 15
American Robin 6
Gray Catbird 8
Northern Mockingbird 3
European Starling 15
Cedar Waxwing 5
Northern Parula 4
Yellow Warbler 7
Chestnut-sided Warbler 1
Black-throated Blue Warbler 3
Prothonotary Warbler 2 (nesting or just curious??? by disappearing in
first
trailer on the right in the marina).
Common Yellowthroat 3
Song Sparrow 3
White-throated Sparrow 9
Northern Cardinal 14
Red-winged Blackbird 23
Common Grackle 16
Brown-headed Cowbird 12
Orchard Oriole 6
Baltimore Oriole 10
House Finch 4
American Goldfinch 10
House Sparrow 8
This report was generated automatically by eBird
v2(http://ebird.org/VA)
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