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The New River Valley Bird Club invites you to the VSO Annual Meeting this spring from May 3-5, 2019 is at Mountain Lake. See the VSO web page for more info, http://www.virginiabirds.org/events/annual-meeting/2019/2/26/new-river-valley-bird-club-to-host-2019-vso-annual-meeting.

This event was cancelled due to an accident before the park; traffic could not reach the park from the Williamsburg side. It will be rescheduled.

On Saturday, May 18, the Club decided to use the normal field trip day to “bust those blocks”. Eleven club members split into four teams to conduct the initial surveys for the four open blocks. And the results were quite impressive. On the priority blocks, 18 species were confirmed as breeders. Confirmation was based on an observed activity, such as adult birds sitting on a nest, adults carrying food, observing newly fledged hatchlings, etc. Similar observations were used to classify species as either “probable” breeders or, less definitively, “possible” breeders. The teams identified 15 species as “probable” breeders, and 33 species as “possible” breeders.

And there were a few interesting identifications. Two teams heard northern bobwhites calling. Two teams saw groups of Mississippi kites. A red-headed woodpecker was observed carrying food (“confirmed”!). Eleven warbler species were identified, two categorized as “probable” breeders. In total, the teams identified 78 species.

8:00-10:00  1000 Lakeshead Dr., Williamsburg.

See list of birds seen at eBird