FreeLists / va-bird / [va-bird] Re: Clark's Grebe at Fort Story

[Phoebetria@xxxxxxx]

Hi Val and all,

Fort Story is open to the public at Gate 1 (the eastern gate, a left turn off 
of Shore Drive near 83rd Street); you must have a Dept of Defense 
identification card to enter at Gate 2, which is the gate closer to Rte 13 
(CBBT).  You may, however, exit the base at Gate 2.  Everyone in the party 
must have a driver's license or other state-issued photographic 
identification card on their persons at all time (all are checked at the 
gate).  In some cases, vehicles are searched.  One receives a pass to display 
on the windshield.  The whole process takes less than 5 minutes, usually.  
Courtesy is a necessity.  It's recommended that folks say "We'd like to see 
the Memorial Cross [or the lighthouses, etc.]" rather than "We'd like to go 
birdwatching" -- the latter causes consternation in the younger soldiers and 
can result in one's being denied access as a result.  Rest assured, nothing 
wrong with birding from the Memorial Overlook or from the Harbormaster 
Headquarters on the base; nonmilitary folks even fish off the HH (huge 
Striped Bass taken there lately).  It's just that birding as a concept 
doesn't seem to have caught on yet among much of the Fort Story military 
personnel.  But they're very obliging.  

Ned Brinkley
Cape Charles, VA
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