[va-bird] Birding flooded fields in Augusta County


Hello all

With Isabel's aftermath by leaving plowed fields as well as some still having 
crops on them flooded , I have found several with a small amount of shore birds 
that were forced down by the rains &  foggy conditions . Today I checked out 
two areas one in the Stuarts Draft area near the Little Debbies Plant & the 
other on the northern end of the County, Mt. Horeb. Here is a list of what I 
saw this afternoon ( SD -- Stuarts Draft & MH -- Mt Horeb ) .
 As John stated Quillen's Pond is now a Lake with what Isabel dumped on us . 
This is the second time that I have seen the waters up but this is the first 
for me to see how the hard surface road got washed out by leaving some ruts as 
deep as 4 to 5 feet. I took some photos of this on Friday when the water was 
running down the lane & going across the main road . The water was all the way 
up to the trees lower branches & this is a good 8 to 10 foot or better from the 
ground . On Friday , Sat. & Sun. no birds were around . 


Pintail -- 2  MH
Black -- bellied Plover -- 1 MH & 2 SD
Am. Golden Plover -- 3 MH &  3 SD
Killdeer --- 36 MH & 99 + SD
Greater Yellowlegs  -- 3  MH
Lesser Yellowlegs -- 17 -- MH
Solitary -- 1 MH  & 1 Bells Lane
Semipalmated Sandpiper -- 2 MH & 5 SD
Least -- 1 SD
Pectoral -- 14 -- MH & 9 SD
Snipe --- 6 SD

Allen Larner
Staunton

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