As part of Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy’s Celebrate Birds! group walks celebrating migration season, we led a group of 5 hardy birders into a rainy day looking for warblers. Between the rains and the muddy conditions, we had amazing looks at several great (often sneaky!) birds, including Bay-breasted Warblers, Ovenbirds, Canada Warblers, Yellow-billed Cuckoos, Acadian Flycatchers, Northern Waterthrush and TONS of Red-eyed Vireos. All told, we saw 57 species of birds, including 12 species of warblers. Not bad considering that the rain quieted all the birds except for Prothonatory Warbler at times.
The full list is in eBird at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S45625342
Bryan Henson
Sun May 13, 2018 8:15 AM
Protocol: Traveling
Party Size: 5
Duration: 2 hours, 51 minutes
Distance: 1.25 miles
6 Canada Goose
4 Wood Duck
3 Double-crested Cormorant
2 Great Blue Heron
3 Red-shouldered Hawk (on occupied nest)
1 Spotted Sandpiper
3 Mourning Dove
5 Yellow-billed Cuckoo
2 Chimney Swift
1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird
3 Red-bellied Woodpecker
2 Downy Woodpecker
1 Hairy Woodpecker
2 Pileated Woodpecker
2 Eastern Wood-peewee
2 Acadian Flycatcher
5 Great-crested Flycatcher
2 Eastern Kingbird
1 Warbling Vireo
10 Red-eyed Vireo
2 Blue Jay
1 American Crow
2 Northern Rough-winged Swallow
2 Purple Martin
9 Tree Swallow
1 Barn Swallow
3 Carolina Chickadee
2 Tufted Titmouse
2 White-breasted Nuthatch
1 House Wren
4 Carolina Wren
11 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
3 Eastern Bluebird
1 Catharus sp. (probably Swainson’s)
2 American Robin
2 Gray Catbird
30 Cedar Waxwing
1 Ovenbird
1 Northern Waterthrush
1 Black-and-white Warbler
2 Prothonatory Warbler
1 Tennessee Warbler
8 Common Yellowthroat
2 American Redstart
3 Northern Parula
6 Bay-breasted Warbler
2 Chestnut-sided Warbler
2 Blackpoll Warbler
1 Black-throated Green Warbler
3 Canada Warbler
1 Field Sparrow
1 Song Sparrow
8 Northern Cardinal
1 Rose-Breasted Grosbeak
5 Indigo Bunting
2 Red-Winged Blackbird
2 Brown-headed Cowbird
9 American Goldfinch