A field trip with part of the William & Mary Ornithology class to Craney this
morning turned up good numbers of sandpipers, but the buff-breasted and
eared grebes seen Tuesday were not relocated. The sandpipers, with the
exception of 29 avocets, a ruddy turnstone, and 4 white-rumped sandpipers,
were concentrated in the extreme southeastern corner of the first
impoundment, where pumping has uncovered fresh mud. In this small pool 7
stilt sandpipers, 2 greater and 8 lesser yellowlegs, 9 white-rumped, 75 least
and
100 semipalamted sandpipers, 1 pectoral sandpiper, four short-billed
dowithcers and a number of semipalmated plover and killdeer were feeding
feverishly. Five red-necked phalaropes and a Forster's tern were in the center
of
the first pool. A peregrine stooped on shovelers there and seems to have taken
up residence on the cross dyke between the southern and middle
impoundments. Several marsh wrens were in the saltmarsh near the office.
Conditions for birds are Craney are quite favorable, although teh roads are in
horrendous shape. Dan Cristol
Daniel A. Cristol
Associate Professor
Department of Biology
College of William & Mary,
P.O. Box 8795
Williamsburg VA 23187-8795, USA
PHONE: 757 221-2405
FAX: 757 221-6483
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