Dave Wallace’s Bird Count – Jan 4, 2013

We are so fortunate that bird’r Dave Wallace periodically does bird counts in Waterford/Rock Creek parks.  Thank you, Dave!

great-blue-heron3His results from January 4, 2013 starting at 8:30 am are:

  • 1 mallard
  • 1 great blue heron (right)
  • 1 turkey vulture
  • 1 cooper’s hawk
  • 2 red-shouldered hawks
  • 1 red-tailed hawk  (love all these vole and mouse-eating birds!)
  • 1 red-bellied woodpecker
  • 4 blue jays
  • 9 American crows
  • 1 white-breasted nuthatch
  • 1 Carolina wren
  • 36 American robins
  • 10 European starlings
  • 1 song sparrow
  • 3 northern cardinals
  • 5 American goldfinch
  • 7 house sparrows

This month we will purchase more of the sturdy fencing and replacing the chicken wires.  We will also patrol staked and fenced plants, straightening, securing, even mulching if the weather is warm enough. Our main project is the area on the hill near the shed where creeping euonymous has been growing for a long time. We are clearing as much as we can and will hit any remaining sprouts with herbicide in the spring. We’ll plant ninebark and other shrubs that can take fairly dry part-shade after we have the invasives under control.

Happy New Year.

Ginny