Juvenile Red-shouldered Hawk
Walt Childs led a guided bird walk on the trail this morning for the Monticello Bird Club of Charlottesville, Virginia. The group started from the Rockfish River trail head at 8:30. I arrived at Glenthorne Loop at 9:00 and met up with the group. The total group species count for the morning was 50.
We had a good turn out (22 birders) for the hike, and the cool temperature and sunny sky made for an enjoyable hike.
Highlights included four raptor species, lots of sparrows, and our resident tail-less Turkey Vulture made two appearances for eveyone to get a good look at it.
Juvenile Red-shouldered Hawk
Juvenile Red-shouldered Hawk
Juvenile Cooper's Hawk
Juvenile Cooper's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Belted Kingfisher
Carolina Chickadee
Field Sparrow
Palm Warbler - yellow subspecies
Palm Warbler - western subspecies
Female Purple Finch
Male Purple Finch
Tail-less Turkey Vulture
Immature White-crowned Sparrow
Adult White-crowned Sparrow
Yellow-rumped Warbler
This morning's RV Trail group list (50 species):
American Goldfinch American Kestrel Belted Kingfisher Black Vulture Blue Jay Bluebird Blue-headed Vireo Carolina Chickadee Carolina Wren Cedar Waxwing Chipping Sparrow Common Raven Cooper's Hawk Cowbird Dark-eyed Junco Downy Woodpecker Eastern Meadowlark Eastern Phoebe Empidonax flycatcher Field Sparrow Great Blue Heron House Finch House Wren Mourning Dove Northern Cardinal Northern Mockingbird Palm Warbler Pine Siskin Purple Finch Red-bellied Woodpecker Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Rock Pigeon Ruby-crowned Kinglet Rusty Blackbird Savannah Sparrow Starling Swamp Sparrow Tufted Titmouse Turkey Vulture Vesper Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Yellow-rumped Warbler |