Under the leadership of Jane Yocom and Carol Sotili, a group of 12 nature enthusiasts who turned out for a recent guided walk of Dulles Greenway Wetlands were rewarded with 43 species of birds, including the Bald Eagle pair being documented via live camera. Under partly cloudy skies and temperatures that started below freezing, the walk’s highlights also included an uncommon American Tree Sparrow, an accidentally flushed Barred Owl, a soaring Cooper’s Hawk and American Wigeons in full breeding plumage. Other types of critters were in short supply, although the area’s mammals were duly represented by a cooperative Eastern Cottontail.

For a complete list of the birds observed,  please see the list below.

130 Canada Goose
1 Wood Duck
2 Northern Shoveler
2 Gadwall
5 American Wigeon
38 Mallard
2 American Black Duck
1 Green-winged Teal
60 duck sp.
2 Mourning Dove
2 American Coot
1 Great Blue Heron
6 Black Vulture
4 Turkey Vulture
1 Cooper’s Hawk
2 Bald Eagle
2 Red-tailed Hawk
1 Barred Owl
2 Red-bellied Woodpecker
2 Downy Woodpecker
2 Pileated Woodpecker
1 Northern Flicker
1 Eastern Phoebe
8 American Crow
60 Fish Crow
1 Common Raven
1 Carolina Chickadee
6 Tufted Titmouse
1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
2 Carolina Wren
2 European Starling
3 Eastern Bluebird
1 Hermit Thrush
4 American Robin
2 House Finch
1 American Goldfinch
1 Chipping Sparrow
2 Field Sparrow
1 American Tree Sparrow
6 White-throated Sparrow
5 Song Sparrow
2 Swamp Sparrow
1 Eastern Towhee
10 Northern Cardinal