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A great morning on Hog Island Sunday -- warm temperatures and a beautiful spot to wander around. We had 32 birders and 59 bird species!!
The list of birds is at the end of this email. There were two groups so not each group saw all of these species, but I hope everyone saw most of them. One of the birding highlights for our group was the great look at the Peregrine Falcon that zoomed directly in front of us and then perched on a pine limb so we could get great looks through the scopes. Shirley enjoyed seeing the Brown-headed Nuthatches too! A cute bird…and so busy!
We saw butterflies: Cabbage white, clouded and orange sulfur, buckeye, checkered skipper, variegated frit, monarch, and pearl crescent. Pretty good for November!
Many thanks to Brian Taber and Bill Williams who led the groups around. Everyone appreciated the spotting scopes you brought.
Hog Island WMA - CSW04, Surry, US-VA
Nov 20, 2011 8:05 AM - 2:40 PM
Protocol: Traveling
5.5 mile(s)
Comments: two birding groups, one of 9, one of 23
59 species (+2 other taxa)
Canada Goose 234
Wood Duck 1
Gadwall 17
American Black Duck 6
Mallard 10
Northern Pintail 7
Green-winged Teal (American) 7
Bufflehead 1
Hooded Merganser 8
Pied-billed Grebe 7
Double-crested Cormorant 41
Great Blue Heron 27
Black Vulture 2
Turkey Vulture 8
Bald Eagle 5
Northern Harrier 3
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
American Kestrel 1
Peregrine Falcon 1
Clapper Rail 1
American Coot 5
Killdeer 1
Greater/Lesser Yellowlegs 1
Laughing Gull 28
Ring-billed Gull 35
Herring Gull (American) 5
Great Black-backed Gull 1
Forster's Tern 7
Mourning Dove 2
Belted Kingfisher 3
Red-bellied Woodpecker 3
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 2
American Crow 9
Fish Crow 1
crow sp. 1
Carolina Chickadee 8
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
Brown-headed Nuthatch 10
Carolina Wren 3
Winter Wren 3
Marsh Wren 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 13
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 5
Eastern Bluebird 5
American Robin 25
Northern Mockingbird 7
European Starling 3
Cedar Waxwing 60
Orange-crowned Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 1
Pine Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 8
Eastern Towhee 4
Savannah Sparrow (Eastern) 4
Song Sparrow 33
Swamp Sparrow 16
White-throated Sparrow 6
Northern Cardinal 1
Red-winged Blackbird 126
Eastern Meadowlark 10
American Goldfinch 1
This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)
Last Updated on Saturday, 29 September 2012 16:36