[va-bird] Alexandria/Fairfax Co: mouth of Hunting Creek [Sat 23 Sep 2006]
From: "Sherman Suter" <ssuter@xxxxxxxx>
To: <va-BIRD@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 20:59:54 -0400
VA: Alexandria/Fairfax Co: mouth of Hunting Creek
Saturday, 23 Sep 2006
1630 to 1755 EDT: scoping W flats from base of sound wall at W end of
apartments, from Stone (GW Parkway) Bridge; E flats from bridge; then W
flats again from bridge and base of sound wall;
27 to 26 C; variable overcast to hazy with moderate glare on flats in
direction of sun; SSW 25 to 15 km/hr; low tide 1500; still some flats
and the main bars exposed to E when I left;
# East of GW Parkway / # W of Parkway;
Canada Goose - / 6
Wood Duck - / 8
American Black Duck - / 2
Mallard 10 / 28
Double-crested Cormorant - / 1
Great Blue Heron 7 / 1
Great Egret 2 / 3
Bald Eagle 2 (ad) flying about & standing on E flats
Osprey 1 / 3
American Golden Plover - / 1 (juv)
Killdeer - / 3
Greater Yellowlegs 2 / 2 (probably the same birds)
Lesser Yellowlegs - / 1
Semipalmated Sandpiper - / 1
Laughing Gull 1100 / 670
Ring-Billed Gull 875 / 210
Herring Gull 6 / -
Great Black-Backed Gull 1 / -
Caspian Tern 24 / 2
Forster's Tern 7 / -
Mourning Dove 4 / 8
Belted Kingfisher - / 1
. . .
The American Golden Plover, Killdeer, and Semipalm Sandpiper were not on
the E flats when I first scanned them. The plover evidently flew in
while I was counting birds to the East. I first spotted it while going
through the Laughing Gulls that were scattered across the W flats; the
Killdeer and Semipalm Sand arrived later.
Sherman Suter
Alexandria VA 22307
ssuter aaas org
Sherman Suter, Ph.D.
Book Reviews Editor
Science
1200 New York Ave. NW
Washington DC 20005
(202) 326-6523 / fax: (202) 789-5316
email: ssuter@xxxxxxxx
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