april 18 botetourt birding

Here's a report from our morning birdwalk at Greenfield Pond near 
Daleville in Botetourt County.

We had some excellent luck: Glossy Ibis (second Botetourt record ever) and Snowy Egret (there are only about 10 Roanoke-Botetourt records) were the best, 
but we also got a Bald Eagle, two Snipe, a Spotted Sandpiper, a Green 
Heron, a Warbling Vireo, Yellow Warbler, Grasshopper Sparrow and Purple 
Martin.

There were eight of us, plus three birders from the Roanoke Bird Club. 
Kent Davis, from Roanoke, compiled this report.

John Pancake




52 species

Canada Goose  5
Mallard  4
Blue-winged Teal  3
Ring-necked Duck  1
Snowy Egret  1
Green Heron  1
Glossy Ibis  1
Black Vulture  2
Turkey Vulture  4
Osprey  1
Bald Eagle  1
Red-tailed Hawk  1
American Coot  10
Killdeer  2
Spotted Sandpiper  1
Wilson's Snipe  2
Mourning Dove  4
Red-bellied Woodpecker  2
Northern Flicker  1
Eastern Phoebe  1
Warbling Vireo  1
Blue Jay  2
American Crow  4
Fish Crow  1
Purple Martin  1
Tree Swallow  48
Carolina Chickadee  6
Tufted Titmouse  4
House Wren  1
Carolina Wren  2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  4
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  1
Eastern Bluebird  4
American Robin  9
Brown Thrasher  2
Northern Mockingbird  1
European Starling  5
Yellow Warbler  1
Yellow-rumped Warbler  2
Eastern Towhee  3
Chipping Sparrow  2
Field Sparrow  1
Savannah Sparrow  2
Grasshopper Sparrow  1
Song Sparrow  3
White-throated Sparrow  5
Northern Cardinal  6
Red-winged Blackbird  124
Eastern Meadowlark  6
Brown-headed Cowbird  4
House Finch  4
American Goldfinch  16