Spent several hours at Occoquan Bay NWR Saturday. Nice day, especially
seeing the large numbers of Chimney Swifts and Yellow-rumped Warblers.
Occoquan Bay NWR - CPW02, Prince William, US-VA
Oct 8, 2011 8:00 AM - 2:15 PM
59 species (+1 other taxa)
Canada Goose 52
Wood Duck 3
Mallard 11
Pied-billed Grebe 2
Double-crested Cormorant 18
Great Blue Heron 4
Great Egret 2
Black Vulture 3
Turkey Vulture 7
Osprey 1
Bald Eagle 3
Cooper's Hawk 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 2
Red-tailed Hawk 1
American Coot 1
Laughing Gull 53
Ring-billed Gull 9
Great Black-backed Gull 1
Caspian Tern 13 Roosting on a sand bar at the confluence of the Occoquan River and Potomac River with gulls and cormorants
Forster's Tern 2
Mourning Dove 15
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
Chimney Swift 125 Large number of migrating individuals along the river first thing in the morning
Belted Kingfisher 1
Red-headed Woodpecker 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 5
Downy Woodpecker 7
Northern Flicker 17
Pileated Woodpecker 2
Eastern Phoebe 11
Red-eyed Vireo 1
Blue Jay 16
American Crow 31
Fish Crow 130 Large group of fish crows congregated in the marsh before flying out over the Potomac River
Tree Swallow 1
Carolina Chickadee 12
Tufted Titmouse 8
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
Carolina Wren 10
Golden-crowned Kinglet 5
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 7
Eastern Bluebird 11
American Robin 28
Gray Catbird 15 Found all through the refuge feeding on berries and fox grape
Northern Mockingbird 6
European Starling 87
Common Yellowthroat 3
Northern Parula 2
Magnolia Warbler 3
Palm Warbler 4 3 western; one eastern
Yellow-rumped Warbler 375 throughout the refuge feeding on poison ivy and myrtle berries as well as actively sallying for insects
Black-throated Green Warbler 3
Eastern Towhee 4
Song Sparrow 8
Swamp Sparrow 5
White-throated Sparrow 1
Northern Cardinal 18
Common Grackle 14
blackbird sp. 7
American Goldfinch 20
This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)
