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Driving to William Byrd Park, Richmond, VA | US-250 E/W | SR-161 | streetview819 | Virginia

William Byrd Park consists of 287 acres sandwiched between the Downtown Expressway and the James River in Richmond’s Near West End. Its urban location belies the richness of wildlife found here. The park offers something for just about everyone so it can be very busy, especially on weekends and holidays.

The Vitacourse exercise trail winds through a semi-open area on the western side of the park and is a good place to watch eastern bluebirds and eastern phoebes hawking for insects. South of the Dogwood Dell Amphitheater is a forested area that woodpeckers, Carolina chickadees, tufted titmice, and more call home year-round. Warblers stop in during migration on their way northward. The familiar songs of red-eyed vireos, eastern wood-pewees, and acadian flycatchers are heard throughout the summer.

Fountain, Swan, and Shields lakes are prime wintering spots for waterfowl. Nearly every species that overwinters in Virginia is common here, particularly at Swan Lake. Ruddy and ring-necked ducks dominate but patient scanning through the large rafts usually reveals scaups, American wigeons, gadwalls, redheads, grebes, mergansers, and teals. Keen-eyed birders occasionally find cackling geese, too. A mixed flock of mallards, Canada, and feral domestic geese live here year-round.

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