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[va-bird] Re: Red-necked Grebe Centreville 2/28/03

  • From: Phoebetria@xxxxxxx
  • To: Thecattertons@xxxxxxx, va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 10:23:37 EST


Hi all,

There is a Red-necked Grebe here in the harbor today at Cape Charles (also 
noted by Steve Rottenborn and Mike Rogers last week), and with the 
Centreville bird, it may be that we're in for part of the enormous influx of 
the species now being seen in states just to our north.  The only recorded 
influx of great magnitude (>350 birds) came in February 1994 in Virginia.  In 
a typical year, only 2-3 Red-necked Grebes are reported.  Any inland body of 
water can hold one or a few, and it seems that looking for them during foul 
weather (fog and rain in particular) is most profitable.  In 1994, a few were 
even seen on pelagic trips far offshore!

Ned Brinkley
Cape Charles, VA (where Painted Bunting and Rufous Hummingbird continue today)
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