[va-bird] Alexandria: Hunting Creek: shorebirds 29 Aug PM

VA: Alexandria/Fairfax Co: mouth of Hunting Creek
29 Aug 2002: 1835 to 1930 EDT
extensive flats on both sides of GW Parkway, but only counted birds on =
West flats; viewed from N shore, 10x binoculars and 40/70x scope;
20 C, cloudy & overcast, 10-15 km/hr NNE;  sunset 1945; low tide: 1905 =
EDT;

Great Blue Heron   1
Great Egret   9
Snowy Egret   1
Canada Goose   5
Wood Duck   9
Mallard   3
Semipalmated Ploverr   2
Killdeer  37
Greater Yellowlegs  19
Lesser Yellowlegs  145
Solitary Sandpiper   1
Red Knot   1   (not red)
Sanderling   3
Semipalmated Sandpiper   45
Western Sandpiper   3
Least Sandpiper    35
White-rumped Sandpiper   6
Baird's Sandpiper   1   (ad alt)=20
Pectoral Sandpiper    42
Stilt Sandpiper   2
Short-billed Dowitcher  11   (1 ad in worn alt, 10 juv)
Long-billed Dowitcher   1   (ad basic)
Wilson's Phalarope   3  (ad basic)
Laughing Gull  30
Ring-billed Gull  8
Caspian Tern   1
Forster's Tern  4
...
Belted Kingfisher  1
Chimney Swift   18
....

Sherman Suter
Alexandria VA 22307
ssuter@xxxxxxxx=20

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