This past Saturday (Aug 23), we had our monthly bird walk at the Blue Ridge Center. Mary Ann Good provided a report of the sightings:
Ten birders led by Laura Weidner and Mary Ann Good found 46 species Saturday morning at the Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship, highlighted by an early Broad-winged Hawk, 2 Kestrel, and 3 Worm-eating Warblers at two locations. At the fire station where we met, we also enjoyed watching 2 men from Pennsylvania releasing groups of homing pigeons, that swirled into the sky and headed north! (We didn’t include them in our count!) Pewees were the bird seen and heard everywhere.
Black Vulture(3), Turkey Vulture(12), Canada Goose(150), Red-shouldered Hawk(1), Broad-winged Hawk(1), Am. Kestrel(2), Mourning Dove(5), Yellow-billed Cuckoo(3), Chimney Swift(4), Ruby-throated Hummingbird(2), Red-bellied Woodpecker(2), Downy Woodpecker(4), Pileated Woodpecker(6), E. Wood-Pewee(15+), Acadian Flycatcher(1), E. Phoebe (1), Great Crested Flycatcher(1), E. Kingbird(3), White-eyed Vireo(1), Red-eyed Vireo(10), Blue Jay(2), Am. Crow(4), Tree Swallow(2), Barn Swallow(3), Carolina Chickadee(4), Tufted Titmouse(4), White-breasted Nuthatch(2), Carolina Wren(4), E. Bluebird(2), Gray Catbird(4), No. Mockingbird(6), E. Starling(15), Cedar Waxwing(2), Worm-eating Warbler(3), Ovenbird(1), Scarlet Tanager(1 juv.), E. Towhee(2), Chipping Sparrow(6), Field Sparrow(5), No. Cardinal(12), Indigo Bunting(9), Baltimore Oriole(2), Orchard Oriole(1), House Finch(1), Am. Goldfinch(25), House Sparrow(5)