Yesterday morning, my wife and I checked out Veteran's Park, Woodbridge, VA.
It was a great birding day, even for novices like us (we started last July).
My wife finally got a good view of wood ducks, and we got some great view of a
couple of Pileated Woodpeckers mating, and I was able to record it... We also
saw some shore birds - Killdeer, Yellowlegs, and some we weren't sure what they
were, we think they may be either short or long-billed Dwight's, or wilson's
snipes. I have videos of them and still need to analyze them, but they were a
ways away and lighting wasn't optimal. However, my wife thought she might have
heard a noise similar to a turkey, so we may be leaning towards the wilson's
snipes.
Other birds we saw were:
Canada Goose
Northern Shovelers
Wood Duck
American Black Duck
Mallard
Gadwell
Blue-wing Teal
Green-wing Teal
Hooded Merganser
Red-beasted Merganser
Ring-neck Duck
Great Blue Heron
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Lesser Yellowlegs
Pigeon
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Red-tailed Hawk
Killdeer
Ring-billed Gull
Mourning Dove
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Eastern Bluebird
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
White-throated Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Brown Creeper
Yellow-rumped Warbler in great plumage
either short or long-billed dowichters, or wilson's snipes
If this list doesn't sound consistent with Veteran's Park, please notify me, I
would rather be accurate than right.
Timothy Twiss, CISSP, CISM, C|EH, CREA, C|CISO, CHFI, CCFE
t_twiss@xxxxxxxxx
