Hi Everyone,
Wayne Baumgartner and I decided to explore another rarely birded site in Washington, DC. Saturday morning found us in Anacostia at Fort DuPont. While Anacostia has a reputation for not being safe, I must admit, in the forested park itself, we saw no one else and we felt ok. That being said, it did drizzle/rain about 75% of the time.
Fort Dupon't habitat is excellent. It has a mix of mature forest, brushy scuby areas, and open lawn. The deep woods seem to be in great conditon and we found lots of good populations of native plants, flowers, and understory treess and bushes. Certainly there are deer here, but it seems they haven't had the same impact as other areas where they tend to eat the understory bear. We were also lucky to see large stands of Mountain Lauriel (Kalmia latifolia) in full bloom!
So how was the birding? Slow during the rain, but we found a number of nice warbler flocks. In total we had 53 species in total including: 12 Warbler species & 3 Vireo species.
Here's the eBird Report:
Wild Turkey 1 Tom near community garden area feedng on path. Nice long beard! Very docile
Great Blue Heron 1 flyover
Red-tailed Hawk 1 perched
Rock Pigeon 1 flyby
Mourning Dove 2
Chimney Swift 5
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2
Downy Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker 1
Pileated Woodpecker 1
Acadian Flycatcher 2 calling and seen.
Great Crested Flycatcher 3 calling and seen
Yellow-throated Vireo 1 singing
Blue-headed Vireo 1
Red-eyed Vireo 7
Blue Jay 1
Fish Crow 1
crow sp. 2
Carolina Chickadee 4
Tufted Titmouse 2
Carolina Wren 3
House Wren 1 in thickets
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 5
Veery 1 in forest interior
Swainson's Thrush 3 in forest interior
American Robin 12
Gray Catbird 5
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling X
Northern Parula 1
Yellow Warbler 1
Chestnut-sided Warbler 1
Magnolia Warbler 2
Black-throated Blue Warbler 1
Blackburnian Warbler 1 probable female with muted colors (more yellow)
Blackpoll Warbler 4
Black-and-white Warbler 1
American Redstart 1
Ovenbird 1
Common Yellowthroat 2
Canada Warbler 1 probable female with fainter necklace.
Eastern Towhee 3
Chipping Sparrow 4
Song Sparrow 1
White-throated Sparrow 4 on path in forest
Scarlet Tanager 3
Northern Cardinal 2
Indigo Bunting 3
Common Grackle 10
Brown-headed Cowbird 1
Baltimore Oriole 2
American Goldfinch 7
House Sparrow 4
############################
To unsubscribe from the MDOSPREY list:
write to: mailto:[log in to unmask]
or click the following link:
http://home.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=MDOSPREY&A=1 |