FreeLists / va-bird / [va-bird] White-faced Ibis at Chincoteague, 1 and 2 June 2002

[BlkVulture@xxxxxxx]

Greetings...

The adult White-faced Ibis originally reported on 19 May from the Wildlife 
Loop at Chincoteague NWR (presumably the same bird) was seen Saturday 1 June 
by Mike Iwanik, and on Sunday 2 June by Sue Heath and myself.  Both days it 
was seen in the portion of Swan Cove that can be seen from the Wildlife Loop. 
 Today it was a mere ten yards from the poison-ivy covered bank along the 
road.  It is not a particularly shy bird.  

Most of the shorebirds at Chincoteague were in the center area of the 
Wildlife Loop, making viewing difficult.  There were thousands of birds out 
there.  Shapes were about all that could be easily discerned.  Some 
shorebirds were in the area of Swan Cove near the Tom's Cove Visitor Center.  
A few white-rumped could be picked out of the semipalmated sandpipers.  Three 
mostly breeding plumaged Red Knots were around.  About sixty dowitchers, with 
very few in breeding plumage were feeding.  I didn't see a single Dunlin 
today.  

Cheers...

Todd

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Todd M. Day
Jeffersonton, VA
Culpeper County
BlkVulture@xxxxxxx
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