FreeLists / va-bird / [va-bird] Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Culpeper Co.

["Steve and Heather Rottenborn" <rotten.born@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

VA Birders,

This evening at 6:55 p.m. I saw a Buff-breasted Sandpiper on the Culpeper 
County side of the Woodward turf farm near Remington.  It was foraging in an 
area where sod had been recently cut, although it occasionally ventured into 
the short-mown grass adjacent to the newly exposed dirt (incidentally, it was 
the only shorebird I saw there feeding in the grass at all).

Also present were 11 Pectoral Sandpipers, 1 Semipalmated Plover, and 80 or so 
Killdeer.  All the birds are quite a way from the road, so a scope is necessary.

To reach this area from Rt. 29 just southwest of Remington (on the Culpeper 
County side of the Rappahannock River), take Rt. 15/29 Business, then go south 
on Rt. 673 for 1.1 miles.  There is room to pull off on the southeast side of 
the road at the large bend.  The shorebirds have been foraging in the bare dirt 
on the southeast side of Rt. 673.  

Good birding,

Steve Rottenborn
Culpeper County, VA
rotten.born@xxxxxxxxxxx


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