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Our March 20th field trip will be to Beaverdam Park in Gloucester County. Leaders will be George and Rosemarie Harris, who live only 4 minutes from the park and bird there quite often.
Our group will depart from Colony Square Shopping Center at 7 am and plan to meet George and Rosemarie at 8 am at the main entrance to the park at the end of Roaring Springs Road.
Beaverdam Park surrounds 635-acre Beaverdam Lake. Winter birding yields a rich assortment of woodpeckers and waterfowl. |
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Join us for a bird walk at New Quarter Park March 13. Meet in the parking lot near the park office. Directions to park. |
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A sunny day at NQP this morning. A few "brisk" gusts but overall a good morning to be out with the birds. Good birds and surprise raccoons!
Welcome to some new folks this morning! Thank you for joining us.
Bill Williams kept the bird tally and entered it into eBird, Cornell Lab of Ornithology's bird data base. The list is below.
37 species!! Took a while to find that Bald Eagle but he finally appeared as we ended the walk! Whew!
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Jeanette Navia and Mary Ann Fennell manned a booth at the James City County Expo February 20, 2010. They gave away free bags of bird seed and information about the Williamsburg Bird Club. |
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Bird ID from Recycle Bin - Photos By Joe Piotrowski
This feature is only on the website and in the electronic version of The Flyer. The answer to this month’s “puzzle” will be given in the next electronic newsletter, as well as on the website.
March's Photo
What is this? Come back next month to find out!
February's Photo
This is a Field Sparrow
January's Photo
This is a Swamp Sparrow
December's Photo
These are Black Scoters
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From Shirley: What a balmy day on the Chesapeake Bay! That's about the best we can hope for in mid-February on the bay. Great trip -- many thanks to Brian Taber and everyone else for pointing out and helping everyone get on the birds. "Red-throated Loons going through the channel!!" was a familiar sound this morning!
I was able to enter the list from each island into eBird and I've included them below.
Total # of bird species = 23.
Number of harbor seals on island 3 = ~12
Brian Taber and Jan Lockwood put the lists together today as we moved from island to island.
Chuck Litterst and Brian Taber
Alex Minarik, Tom McCary, Brian Taber, Chuck Litterst
Bill Williams Mitchell Byrd and Lynn Collins
Location: CBBT--South Thimble Island (#1)
Observation date: 2/20/10
Notes: Williamsburg Bird Club Field Trip, Leader Brian Taber
Number of species: 12
Greater Scaup 2
Lesser Scaup 6
Surf Scoter 8
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Bird Walk at New Quarter Park
Nancy Norton, Mike Powell, Steven David, Susan Powell (with back turned), Bob Long, Sara Lewis |
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Shirley Devan took this photo of a Brown Thrasher out her window on this very snowy day, January 30, 2010. |
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The Williamsburg Bird Club and New Quarter Park co-sponsor bird walks at New Quarter Park twice a month — the second and fourth Saturdays. The second Saturdays we meet at 8 a.m; the fourth Saturdays we meet at 7 a.m. Meet in the parking lot near the park office. Participants can stay as long as they’d like. Generally, the leader will walk about two hours or so, but participants can peel off as they like. Schedule of upcoming walks | More information about bi-weekly bird walks |
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