[va-bird] Oyster & a golden-plover


Tom Saunders called midday yesterday to say there was an adult American 
Golden-Plover in fields north of the landfill on the Seaside Road, Northampton 
County.  It was still there in the evening, right next to the road, among 185 
or 
so Black-bellied Plovers; gorgeous bird (short legs, long wings, showing 4 
primary tips past the longest tertial: not a Pacific!).  The Marbled Godwit and 
Stilt Sandpipers had left, but there were still 32 Pectoral, 8 Western, 5 
Semipalmated, and one White-rumped Sandpiper, a Greater and 2 Lesser 
Yellowlegs, 2 
Short-billed Dowitchers, 44 Killdeer, and 65+ Semipalmated Plovers.  At Oyster 
in the last hour or so of light, I counted about 3200 Bobolinks going to roost 
(a small count, hopefully to grow in the next week or so), 300+ Eastern 
Kingbirds, and impressive numbers of most egret/heron species.  According to 
Brian 
Taber, last Sunday's front was a big one, with 'hundreds of orioles and 
thousands of kingbirds' seen at the southern tip, so the next front should have 
a 
big impact on both species, which are still around in numbers locally.  

Ned Brinkley
Cape Charles, VA
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