Fauna at the Yorktown Battlefields

Fauna around the Yorktown Battlefields

This page shows some of the fauna (aka Critters) that can be found in the area surrounding the Yorktown Battlefields.

Above are pictures of a bald eagle seen at Wormley Pond In the Historic Yorktown Batlefields at approximately 7:40 am the morning of 4-06-2002. As we got down near the main part of the pond on the tour road, an osprey comes flying up the creek, over the dam and up the pond carrying a fish. That's cool enough, but then here comes a bald eagle hauling up behind him and after the osprey turns back south makes a pass at him, knocking the fish loose. The osprey heads off north and the eagle takes a perch in a tree just off the dam, I guess looking for the fish. These shots were taken with my Nikon CP-990 and TC-3ED 3x telephoto converter from an estimated distance between 90 and 100 yards. All shots have been cropped to 640x480 and moldly sharpened in PaintShopPro7. The last of the four was taken with digital zoom and unfortunately I was unable to get focus lock.

One early evening at Wormley Pond a beaver swam around for maybe 15 minutes checking Klaus
and I out on the dam. We had the luck to be there and see almost a dozen tail slaps in that time.

Geese on the earthen dam at Wormley Pond.

Fish in the well just upstream of the spillway
on the dam at Wormley pond.

Unfortunately, if you walk the area enough you're
likely to come across a carcass or two. This young
raccoon was found at the northern end of the western
finger of Wormley Pond, near the snakeskin below.