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[Phoebetria@xxxxxxx]

I received the following today from Paul Hess, a veteran birder from 
Pennsylvania:

"Another birder and I found an adult Scissor-tailed Flycatcher yesterday
afternoon (Tuesday, June 7) on White Marsh Road (Route 642) about 100 yards
south of the Washington Ditch entrance to Great Dismal Swamp NWR.  It was
hunting from roadside utility wires.  The other birder, Sam Sinderson, took
photos that will not be good but probably sufficient for documentation."

Also, second-hand word from John Spahr that Lorna Anderberg, also an 
experienced birder, found 2 Reddish Egrets on Tangier Island recently.   This 
is a 
likely spot for two of these birds to show up, and this is the typical window.  
 
Maybe someone could take the ferry out there and check!   Virginia has no firm 
records of this species, which is increasing in the Southeast in recent 
years.   (Another good year for Brown Booby in NC so far, so it can't hurt to 
keep 
an eye out for these on the Bay and ocean coasts.)

Locally, a Least Sandpiper hung on at Cape Charles beach through 7 June (my 
latest date for the county by over a week), a Blackpoll Warbler was still 
singing here on the 5th (latest by a few days, though there are July reports of 
singing males in the county!), and today a Brown-headed Nuthatch roamed the 
last 
block of Randolph and Tazewell Avenues in town, my first for the town proper.  
 Chuck-will's-widows are audible at dusk from the SW corner of town (2), the 
first in several years.

Ned Brinkley
Cape Charles, VA


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