FreeLists / va-bird / [va-bird] Craney Island

["Bill Williams" <jwwil2@xxxxxx>]

Fellow Birders,
    Hog Island, Surry County, was closed today for a controlled hunt.  
Apparently it had been closed previous days this week.
    Mitchell Byrd and I found Craney Island to be full of birds during our all 
too brief visit there this afternoon.  We found no "grasspipers", 
unfortunately.  Noteworthy, however, were (at 3:00 p.m.) :
Northern Shoveler-10-12
Green-winged Teal-@ least one
Blue-winged Teal-6-8

Northern Harrier-1 adult male

American Avocet-8-off first cross-dike road
Red Knot-1 basic plumaged adult-southwest corner
Red-necked Phalarope-2-off first cross-dike road
Wilson's Phalarope-1-off first cross-dike road

Gull-billed Tern-2 +
Caspian Tern-ca 400
Royal Tern
Forster's Tern
Black Tern-1-southwest corner

Additional shorebirds included:  Killdeer, Semipalmated Plover, both 
Yellowlegs, Ruddy Turnstone (2),Sanderling (10-12), Short-billed Dowitcher 
(100+), Willet (2 Western), numerous Least, Semipalmated, Western, Pectoral 
Sandpipers, 1 White-rumped Sandpiper.

Bill Williams



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