2012 Field Trip Reports
Rappahannock River Valley NWR – September 2012
Although the bird club members were few, the birds were many, with several pockets of mixed, migrant flocks.
Wilna Tract
Northern Bobwhite White-eyed Vireo Northern Parula
Turkey Vulture Red-eyed Vireo Chestnut-sided Warbler
Bald Eagle Blue Jay Pine Warbler
Mourning Dove American Crow Palm Warbler
Yellow-billed Cuckoo Tree Swallow American Redstart
Ruby-throated Hummingbird Carolina Chickadee Common Yellowthroat
Belted Kingfisher Tufted Titmouse Hooded Warbler
Red-bellied Woodpecker White-brested Nuthatch Summer Tanager
Hairy Woodpecker Carolina Wren Eastern Towhee
Northern Flicker House Wren Chipping Sparrow
Pileated Woodpecker Eastern Bluebird Field Sparrow
Eastern Wood-Pewee Gray Catbird Savannah Sparrow
Eastern Phoebe Brown Thrasher Northern Cardinal
Great Creasted Flycatcher Cedar Waxwing Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Bobolink
Red-winged Blackbird
American Goldfinch
A quick stop at the east end of the Tappahannock bridge picked up:
Laughing Gull Ring-billed Gull Royal Tern
Forster’s Tern Double-crested Cormorant Osprey
A stop at Hutchinson Tract added:
Northern Mockingbird
Black-and-white Warbler
Song Sparrow
Maryland’s Eastern Shore & Blackwater NWR – February 2012
Common Loon Black Vulture Tufted Titmouse
Pied-billed Grebe Turkey Vulture Blue Jay
Horned Grebe Bald Eagle American Crow
Great Blue Heron Northern Harrier Fish Crow
Tundra Swan Red-Tailed Hawk Carolina Chickadee
Snow Goose Golden Eagle Red-breasted Nuthatch
Canada Goose American Kestrel Brown-headed Nuthatch
Green-winged Teal Northern Bobwhite Carolina Wren
American Black Duck Ring-necked Pheasant Eastern Bluebird
Mallard American Coot American Robin
Northern Pintail Killdeer Northern Mockingbird
Northern Shoveler Sanderling European Starling
Gadwall Ring-billed Gull Yellow-rumped Warbler
American Wigeon Herring Gull Northern Cardinal
Canvasback Great Black-backed Gull Savannah Sparrow
Redhead Rock Pigeon Song Sparrow
Ring-necked Duck Mourning Dove White-throated Sparrow
Lesser Scaup Eastern Screech-owl Red-winged Blackbird
Long-tailed Duck Belted Kingfisher Eastern Meadowlark
Common Goldeneye Red-bellied Woodpecker Common Grackle
Bufflehead Downy Woodpecker House Sparrow
Hooded Merganser Northern Flicker
Ruddy Duck Horned Lark
Surf Scoter
Northern Gannet
Double-crested Cormorant
