FreeLists / va-bird / [va-bird] Eurasian Wigeon, Swainson's Hawk, Sandhill Crane, Hudsonian Godwit

[Phoebetria@xxxxxxx]

Todd Day found a male Eurasian Wigeon, among Americans, in Swan Cove at 
Chincoteague yesterday afternoon, as well as a single Hudsonian Godwit in the 
same cove, among hundreds of Western Willets.  There are also 15 Marbled 
Godwits in the area.  Later that day, a young light-morph Swainson's Hawk 
flew by the Kiptopeke Hawkwatch, found by Bob Anderson and Harry Armistead 
and seen also by Day.  

Today, a Sandhill Crane flew south by the hawkwatch; then later, it was seen 
northbound (also by Day, Ake, Armistead).  

The cold front today delivered thousands of warblers, largely Palm and 
Yellow-rumped but with other species mixed in, a scattering of mimids, 
woodpeckers, waxwings, blackbirds, kinglets, and thrushes to Sunset Beach and 
Kiptopeke.  Single Sharp-tailed Sandpipers have turned up in Delaware and New 
Jersey -- perhaps we're next!  Check every Pectoral-like bird carefully!

Ned Brinkley
Cape Charles, VA 
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