[va-bird] quick Chincoteague visit

[Phoebetria@xxxxxxx]

A very quick visit to Chincoteague was a pleasant break from inn-keeping and 
errands.  Bob Anderson and Thuy Tran picked me up in Cape Charles, and we 
spent the afternoon mosly on the Wildlife Loop. No Little Stint or Red-necked 
Stint, alas (and very few peep due to high water levels, but beautiful young 
juvenile terns included Forster's (5), Gull-billed (2), and Sandwich 
(1). Temperature about 88 degrees, breezy. [Forster's also raised young in the 
marsh near 
Lake Foster in Cape Charles (and were feeding them last weekend on the new 
tarmac at Marina Villages East), and Gull-billeds have also been foraging at 
these 
new man-made lakes in Cape Charles.]

Location:     Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge
Observation date:     7/21/06
Number of species:     79

Brant - Branta bernicla     1 (probably injured; in with Canada Geese in Swan 
Cove)
Canada Goose - Branta canadensis     150
Gadwall - Anas strepera     3
American Black Duck - Anas rubripes     9
Mallard - Anas platyrhynchos     220 (plus ca. 5 hybrids with Black Duck)
Northern Bobwhite - Colinus virginianus     3
Brown Pelican - Pelecanus occidentalis     15
Double-crested Cormorant - Phalacrocorax auritus     9
Great Blue Heron - Ardea herodias     1
Great Egret - Ardea alba     75
Snowy Egret - Egretta thula     120
Little Blue Heron - Egretta caerulea     15
Tricolored Heron - Egretta tricolor     4 (including 2 young juveniles)
Cattle Egret - Bubulcus ibis     20
Green Heron - Butorides virescens     3
Glossy Ibis - Plegadis falcinellus     88
Turkey Vulture - Cathartes aura     5
Osprey - Pandion haliaetus     1
Red-tailed Hawk - Buteo jamaicensis     1
Clapper Rail - Rallus longirostris     6
Black-bellied Plover - Pluvialis squatarola     1
Semipalmated Plover - Charadrius semipalmatus     15
Killdeer - Charadrius vociferus     1
American Oystercatcher - Haematopus palliatus     7
Greater Yellowlegs - Tringa melanoleuca     35
Lesser Yellowlegs - Tringa flavipes     55 (including a few juveniles)
Solitary Sandpiper - Tringa solitaria     1
Willet - Catoptrophorus semipalmatus     65 (including 8 Western Willets, at 
least)
Spotted Sandpiper - Actitis macularius     6
Whimbrel - Numenius phaeopus     1
Red Knot - Calidris canutus     16   (flew into Snow Goose Pool, drank, 
bathed, and fed)
Sanderling - Calidris alba     8 (some very stint-like in plumage!)
Semipalmated Sandpiper - Calidris pusilla     25
Western Sandpiper - Calidris mauri     6
Least Sandpiper - Calidris minutilla     90
Pectoral Sandpiper - Calidris melanotos     7
Stilt Sandpiper - Calidris himantopus     31
Short-billed Dowitcher - Limnodromus griseus     230
Wilson's Phalarope - Phalaropus tricolor     1 (Snow Goose Pool)
Laughing Gull - Larus atricilla     500
Ring-billed Gull - Larus delawarensis     4
Herring Gull - Larus argentatus     25
Great Black-backed Gull - Larus marinus     15
Gull-billed Tern - Sterna nilotica     2
Royal Tern - Sterna maxima     16
Sandwich Tern - Sterna sandvicensis     1
Common Tern - Sterna hirundo     45
Forster's Tern - Sterna forsteri     60
Least Tern - Sterna antillarum     20
Black Tern - Chlidonias niger     2
Black Skimmer - Rynchops niger     13
Rock Pigeon - Columba livia     1
Mourning Dove - Zenaida macroura     2
Red-bellied Woodpecker - Melanerpes carolinus     1
Eastern Kingbird - Tyrannus tyrannus     3
Fish Crow - Corvus ossifragus     5
Purple Martin - Progne subis     17
Tree Swallow - Tachycineta bicolor     14
Bank Swallow - Riparia riparia     1
Barn Swallow - Hirundo rustica     25
Carolina Chickadee - Poecile carolinensis     2
Brown-headed Nuthatch - Sitta pusilla     5
House Wren - Troglodytes aedon     1
American Robin - Turdus migratorius     4
Gray Catbird - Dumetella carolinensis     14
Northern Mockingbird - Mimus polyglottos     2
Brown Thrasher - Toxostoma rufum     1
European Starling - Sturnus vulgaris     5
Common Yellowthroat - Geothlypis trichas     3
Northern Cardinal - Cardinalis cardinalis     5
Indigo Bunting - Passerina cyanea     3
Red-winged Blackbird - Agelaius phoeniceus     25
Eastern Meadowlark - Sturnella magna     2
Common Grackle - Quiscalus quiscula     1
Boat-tailed Grackle - Quiscalus major     8
Brown-headed Cowbird - Molothrus ater     5
Orchard Oriole - Icterus spurius     2
House Finch - Carpodacus mexicanus     1
American Goldfinch - Carduelis tristis     12

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2 (http://www.ebird.org)

Ned Brinkley
Cape Charles, VA

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