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A first-winter Glaucous Gull was on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel this 
afternoon at 5 p.m., perched on the railing just north of the northernmost 
artificial island.  As a storm front approached from the west, thousands of 
gulls (mostly Laughing, some Herring and Ring-billed) and terns (about 600 
each of Common and Royal) were actively feeding along the lee side of the 
span, quite an impressive sight for May 2 (there were rumors of jaegers here 
last week, but I am not certain who saw them; certainly is possible).  
Yesterday, 1 May, there were still one Surf and six Black Scoters, one Great 
Cormorant, 26 Purple Sandpipers, etc. out at the CBBT, with one House Wren, 
one Marsh Wren, and one beautiful Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow on Island 4.  
In Cape Charles, migrants have included Baltimore and many Orchard Orioles, 
White-eyed and Red-eyed Vireos, Yellow-breasted Chat, Indigo Bunting, Prairie 
Warbler, and Common Yellowthroat.  Three Pine Siskins were still in the 
Loblolly Pines at the corner of Harbor and Randolph yesterday as well, the 
latest record I have for the county.  

Ned Brinkley
Cape Charles, VA 
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