We took a few days off this week and explored
Chincoteague. The trip was highlighted
by hundreds of egrets and herons in the marsh across the road from the
USF&WS visitor center; and several Virginia Rails and a family of Osprey in
another marsh behind our B&B. There
was every kind of heron and egret one usually finds in our region, with the
most interesting sight being several of the famous Chincoteague ponies hosting
Cattle
Egrets on their backs. I always look for Brown-headed Nuthatches on any Eastern
Shore adventure, and was not disappointed this trip during a walk around the
Woodland
Trail. The final exclamation point of
the trip, however, occurred as we began the drive home when we caught sight of
two adult Bald Eagles cruising Harrier style in the Chincoteague Bay marsh along
the road between Chincoteague and Wallops Island.
Canada Goose
Double-crested Cormorant
Brown Pelican
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Glossy Ibis
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Virginia Rail
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Solitary Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Willet
Lesser Yellowlegs
Sanderling
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Forster's Tern
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Eastern Kingbird
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Barn Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Brown-headed Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
Common Yellowthroat
Eastern Towhee
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
American Goldfinch
Nancy Vehrs
Harry Glasgow
Manassas, VA
