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Final tune-up for Kennard Elementary School WSB Team

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JAMES WILSON

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JAMES WILSON

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Sun, 6 May 2007 08:59:56 -0400

On Saturday morning, 4 students from Kennard Elementary School in 
Centreville (plus one slightly older sister) visited Tuckahoe Park and 
Adkins Arboretum for a final tune-up for the upcoming World Series of 
Birding.  This fine group of young birders is sponsored by Steiner 
Binoculars.
The youth started at the pond by the main lake at Tuckahoe and what a great 
place to start.  They IDed these birds:
    Common Yellowthroat        Yellow Warbler
    Blackpoll                            Blue Gray Gnatcatcher
    Orchard Oriole                   Baltimore Oriole
    Catbird                                Green Heron
    Prothonotary Warbler        Yellow-rumped Warbler
    Pewee
    Swamp Sparrow                Towhee
    Turkey's gobbling            Great Crested Flycatcher
    Carolina Chickadee        Osprey
    Great Blue Heron            Downy Woodpecker
    Kingbird                        Yellow-billed Cuckoo
    Barn Swallow                Tree Swallow
    Red-winged Blackbird    Grackle
    Cowbird                    American Crow
    Turkey Vulture            Flicker
    Carolina Wren            Wood Thrush
    Brown Thrasher    `    Field Sparrow

The Wood Duck, seen earlier in the week in the pond, was missing.
This small pond is a very birdy place and not to be missed on a trip to 
Tuckahoe.

The youth totaled 73 species from 6:15 until 10:30 am.  Other highlights 
were:
    Yellow-breasted Chat
    Louisiana Waterthrush
    Black and White Warbler
    Prairie Warbler (the Parulas heard earlier in the week were missing)
    Pine Warbler
    Scarlet Tanager
    Blue Grosbeak
    Many Indigo Buntings
    Acadian Flycatcher - 1

On the way home, we found a Kestrel and heard Grasshopper Sparrows singing 
at the corner of Rt. 309
and Ruthsburg Road.  Continuing down 309, we heard and saw 2 Meadowlarks 
sitting on the phone lines.

The kids are heading for Cape May on Wednesday morning to spend 3 days 
scouting in preparation for
for the Big Day.

Jim Wilson
Queenstown