[va-bird] Re: comp list at 299

Hey Sue (and VA-Birders) - 

Just back from Europe and wow!   Look at all the arrivals.   I think those 
88-degree days have resulted in some really early arrival dates this year, and 
I'm dying to get out and see some of these great birds.   I would imagine that 
this weekend, reports of Bay-breasted and Tennessee Warblers should come from 
the western part of the state (or the middle; they're rare in spring out here 
on the coast); that Red Knots have already turned up out around the barrier 
islands; that a Black Tern or two will pass through Craney Island soon (need 
some bad weather to hold one there!); that Least Bitterns are already haunting 
the reedbeds around both sides of Back Bay in Virginia Beach; and that the 
first 
Mississippi Kites should be coming in to traditional areas south of Emporia 
this weekend.   For those with lots of energy, a seawatch from Cape Henry, 
especially during easterly winds, should produce a Roseate Tern in the next 
week, 
if enough hours are spent watching the Common Terns.   Another 15 or so 
species should be reported in the first two weeks of May, mostly shorebirds, 
with a 
few more thrushes, a flycatcher, and a cuckoo to come.

Ned Brinkley
Cape Charles, VA

In a message dated 4/29/04 2:42:10 PM, sheath@xxxxxxx writes:


> VA Birders,
> 
> We now have 299 species on the comp list.  What's 300 going to be and
> whose going to get it?
> 
> Sue
> 
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> Susan A. Heath
> George Mason University
> Environmental Science Department
> Fairfax, VA
> 
> Secretary, Virginia Avian Records Committee
> Keeper, Virginia Comp List at www.obscure-reference.com/~sheath
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