I checked the Hunting Creek flats (next to the George Washington Parkway, just
south of the Beltway) a couple of hours after low tide on Sunday evening.
Shorebird numbers were disappointing. Kurt Gaskill joined me for part of the
period (and found the Blue-winged Teal while I was busy counting Laughing
Gulls).
1840 to 1955 EDT: scanning flats from GW Parkway Bridge and from W of new
sound wall at W end of apartments;
30 - 20 C; complete mid-level overcast (no direct sunlight); SSE 8-10 km/hr;
low tide 1700, flats and bars on river side submerged by about 1950; sunset
2013 EDT;
# East of GW Parkway / # W of Parkway; fly-overs were not assigned to either
side
Canada Goose * / 2
Wood Duck 2 / 1
American Black Duck 2 / *
Mallard 22 / 1
Blue-Winged Teal 1 (f) / *
Double-Crested Cormorant 4 / *
Great Blue Heron 2 / 1
Great Egret 10 / 4
Black Vulture 2
Osprey 7
Killdeer * / 7
Greater Yellowlegs 3 / 2
Lesser Yellowlegs * / 6
Spotted Sandpiper 1 / *
Semipalmated Sandpiper * / 7
Least Sandpiper * / 4
Pectoral Sandpiper * / 1
Laughing Gull 1350 / 4
Ring-Billed Gull 1125 / 110
Herring Gull 4 / *
Great Black-Backed Gull 6 / *
Caspian Tern 4 / *
Forster's Tern 2 / *
. . . .
Sherman Suter
Alexandria VA 22307
ssuter aaas.org
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