Somewhat noteworthy sightings from the weekend:
In my yard -- 4/19
Siskin 8 (recent high)
Purple finch 1 f (FOS) (the best part of my first ever 4-finch day)
White Oaks Park - 4/17
Blue-headed vireo 1 (FOS)
Caspian tern 1 (flyover, 3rd I've recorded over Hollin Hills)
Huntley Hike/Bike -- 4/18
Loon 2 (FOS) (low overhead, in breeding plumage)
Blue-winged teal 1
Great egret 4 (almost FOS---saw one off the GW parkway on the bus on 4/14)
Broad-winged hawk 1 (FOS)
Coot 1
Caspian tern 1
Swift 6 (FOS)
Wood thrush 1 (FOS)
WE vireo 1 (FOS)
Gnatcatcher 18
RC kinglet 16
Palm warbler 10 (all yellow, 1 singing), but not a single yellow-rump!
Ovenbird 1 (FOS)
Yellowthroat 4 (FOS)
Junco 3 (ties latest in VA)
Swamp sparrow 28 (outnumbered all other sparrows combined)
Scarlet tanager 1 (FOS) (ties earliest at Huntley)
Bunting 1 (FOS) (earliest I've ever had at Huntley)
Rusty BB 85
4/19 Leesylvania
Almost nothing to speak of (1 house wren, 2 yellow-throated warbler, 1
parula, 2 thrashers, 3 kinglets), except at least 12 Caspian terns.
4/19 Occoquan
Loon 3 (2 in breeding plumage)
Horned grebe 2
Ruddy duck 6
Blue-winged teal 1
RB merganser 10
King rail 2
Spotted sandpiper 1 (FOS)
Greater yellowlegs 2 (FOS) (breeding plumage)
Laughing gull 50+
Forster's tern 2
Kingbird 1 (FOS) (banders said they've been around for a few days)
Yellow-rump 10
Pine 1 (FOS, oddly)
Prothonotary 2 (FOS)
Yellow 1 (FOS)
Yellowthroat 10
Savannah sparrow 10+
4/20 lots of rain
Ben Jesup
Alexandria
