[va-bird] Purple sandpipers, Cape Charles

Howdy all,
I got this from Tom Saunders. Seems he is having problems posting. So I am 
the middle man. This is from yesterday, but I didn't check my email until 
today. 
Sorry to all.
Jethro

All,
 
Migration has not been much in evidence here recently, with the exception of 
disappearing ducks, but 61 PURPLE SANDPIPERS were on the rock breakwater just 
off the Cape Charles boardwalk at 11 this morning, a high count for me for 
this location. I didnât have time to check the larger rock jetty that forms 
the 
north side of the town harbor, so there could have been even more. 27 
sanderlings, 16 ruddy turnstones, 3 dunlin, 1 Forsterâs tern, 12 laughing 
gulls, 4 
ring-billed gulls, 6 great black-backed gulls, 3 common loons, and 9 
red-breasted 
mergansers completed the avian assortment. 4 or 5 very large bottle-nosed 
dolphins were moving up the bay just beyond the jetty.
 
Tom Saunders
Cape Charles, lower Eastern Shore

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