Species

Pied-billed Grebe, Horned Grebe, Double-crested Cormorant, Ruddy Duck, Canada Goose, American Wigeon, Mallard, Mallard / Black Hybrid with Mallards, Greater Scaup, Bufflehead, Great Blue Heron, Black Vulture, Turkey Vulture, Bald Eagle, Red-shouldered Hawk, Ring-billed Gull, Herring Gull, Rock Dove, Mourning Dove, Belted Kingfisher, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Downy Woodpecker, Hairy Woodpecker, Northern Flicker, Pileated Woodpecker, Blue Jay, Piscataway Park, American Crow, Fish Crow, Eastern Bluebird, Hermit Thrush, American Robin, Northern Mockingbird, American Goldfinch, Nashville Warbler, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Black-throated Gray Warbler, Song Sparrow, Swamp Sparrow, White-throated Sparrow, Dark-eyed Junco, Northern Cardinal, Baltimore Oriole, Red-winged Blackbird

Ken Cohen reports:

If you missed this field annual field trip to Piscataway Park, you missed some great birds. We saw Downy, Hairy, Red-bellied, and Pileated Woodpeckers and a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. Although the diving ducks were not in, we found both Horned and Pied-billed Grebes. Juvenile, subadult and adult Bald Eagles showed off their different plummages. At Farmington Landing those elusive Winter Wrens left the bushes to land on logs in plain sight! The Black-throated Gray warbler continued to hang out at Colonial Farm and provided us several brief but decisive views. As if that was not enough, a lingering Baltimore Oriole and Nashville Warbler also appeared. We moved on to discover a hybrid Mallard / Black duck at the boardwalk. Birding across the Potomac River from Mt. Vernon made us wonder if we were seeing the same birds George Washington saw.

Dave, Linette, & Ken