A Place to Rest—or Nest

A Place to Rest—or Nest. George Washington Memorial Parkway. Nearly 300 different kinds of birds find food, shelter, or a rest stop in Dyke Marsh. Birds that migrate thousands of miles along the Atlantic Flyway rest here on their way to winter homes in the Caribbean, Central America, and South America., Heavy herons and kingfishers fish these waters daily. Nearby trees offer insects for warblers, soft wood for cavity nesters like woodpeckers, and hunting perches for birds of prey. Wood ducks hide among the cattails, where blackbirds and wrens often build their nests., Dyke Marh gives birds , and people , something of value with every visit., (captions) , Bald Eagle , Haliaeetus leucocephalus , Year-round resident , Photo by Ed Eder, Osprey , Pandio Haliaetus , Breeding resident , Photo by Ed Eder, Red-bellied Woodpecker , Melanerpes carolinus , Year-round resident , Photo by , Prothonotary Warbler , Protonotaria citrea , Summertime only , Photo by Ed Eder, Great Egret , Ardea alba , Year-round resident , Photo by Ed Eder, Marsh Wren , Cistothorus palustris , Breeding resident , Photo by Ed Eder, Wood duck , Aix sponsa , Year-round resident , Photo by Ed Eder, Northern Parula , Parula americana , Migrant , Photo by Grehard Hofmann, Great Blue Heron , Ardea herodias , Year-round resident , Photo by Ed Eder, Red-winged blackbird , Agelaius phoeniceus , Year-round resident , Photo by Ed Eder, Photo by Ed Eder