Birding on the Bay-Bridge Tunnel on Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning
produced a good variety of ducks but in small numbers. Observed were 2
female Common Eiders, one (possibly two) Harlequin Ducks, a male Black
Scoter, two Long-tailed Ducks, and small rafts of Surf Scoters and
Red-breasted Mergansers.
Island 3 produced the eiders, harlequin, and scoters.
The expected Gannets, Great and Double-crested Cormorants, Purple Sandpipers
(a large flock on island 3) and Ruddy Turnstones were also present. I didn't
find any unusual gulls among the Gr. Black-backed, Herring and Ring-bill
gathered along the rocks.
My trip took me from Taylor's Gut, DE (across the road from the Woodland
Beach impoundments) where I saw the (escapee?) White-checked Pintail, to Port
Mahon Rd. where the Snowy Owl is still present, to the ponds near Broadkill
Beach where Snow Geese have congregated in the thousands, to Chincoteague
where there were two Little Blue Heron, and good numbers of Dunlin, Willets,
Oystercatchers, Yellow-legs, and Sanderlings, and to First Landing State Park
in Virginia Beach where I heard at least 15 singing Pine Warblers. All along
the way, the spring migration seemed underway.
Ralph Wall
Great Falls, Va.
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