Birding

Recently the Nation Audubon Society conducted a survey of Virginia Important Bird Areas (IBA). I was forwarded a list of species found while one of the surveyors was at Cumberland State Forest. In just three hours she found all of the following on the forest:

Ovenbird 21

Cape May warbler 2

Louisiana waterthrush 4

Hooded warbler 8

Northern parula 8

Red-eyed vireo 24

Carolina wren 7

Wood duck 1

Blue gray gnatcatcher 9

Eastern pheobe 1

Kentucky warbler 3

Eastern wood peewee 8

Downy woodpecker 2

Great crested flycatcher 6

Acadian flycatcher 9

Northern cardinal 2

Common yellowthroat 12

Tufted titmouse 4

Northern flicker 1

Prothonotary warbler 2

White-eyed vireo 6

Blue jay 4

Yellow-billed cuckoo 6

Red-bellied WP 4

Pileated woodpecker 2

American crow 5

Indigo bunting 8

Black polled warbler 5

Prairie warbler 15

Yellow throated vireo 3

Black and white warbler 5

Bay-breasted warbler 1

Scarlet tanager 6

Field sparrow 4

Red headed WP 1

Chipping sparrow 1

American goldfinch 3

Carolina chickadee 2

Red-shouldered hawk 1

Wood thrush 4

Blue-headed vireo 2

Pine warbler 4

Yellow breasted chat 6

Eastern towhee 6

Brown headed cowbird 2

Yellow throated warbler 1

Brown thrasher 1

Summer tanager 2

Northern mockingbird 1

Now just imagine what you could find in a whole day!