April 15, 2006 7:30 - Noon
Warm and mostly sunny
Joined the monthly bird walk with Prince George’s
County Audubon Society at Governor Bridge Natural
Area. Many wild flowers in bloom with vast areas of
Virginia Bluebells.
Birds seen with rough numbers:
Eastern Towhee (numerous, many calling drink your
tea )
Brown-headed Cowbird (6)
Brown Thrasher
White-Throated Sparrow (numerous)
Robin (2)
Great Blue Heron (3)
Mourning Dove
Tree Swallow (2)
Turkey Vulture (3)
Swamp Sparrow
Cardinal (numerous)
Mockingbird (2)
Downy Woodpecker (6)
Red-winged Blackbird (many calling, displaying, a
female apparently eating seeds from last
year's cattails)
Blue Jays (few)
Chickadee (5)
Yellow-Rumped Warbler (1)
Goldfinch (5)
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (4)
Common Grackle
Red-bellied Woodpecker (3)
Ovenbird (heard)
Canada Goose (many, some appear to be nesting)
Wood duck (3)
Belted Kingfisher (6, several fly-overs, two
playfully chasing each other)
Carolina Wren (calling)
Hairy Woodpecker
Tufted Titmouse (3)
Barred Owl (calling repeatedly)
American Bittern (2, flushed in marsh and then
circled in flight giving nice views)
Eastern Bluebird
American Crow
Fish Crow
Black Vulture
Field Sparrow (4 heard and seen)
Northern Parula (2)
Prairie Warbler (?possibly heard?)
Unidentified sparrow – possibly Song
Unidentified flycatcher (maybe empidonax)
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