[va-richmond-general] Craney Closed - a bad birding day

for Bev Leeuwenberg and myself. When we got to Craney we discovered, to our 
dismay, it will be closed to all visitors at least for the rest of the week and 
maybe longer. Not clear why. The lesson painfully learned is to call before 
going to make sure they're open - plus, if anyone in tidewater who knows of a 
closing, please, please post to the Listserve.

So, we back-tracked towards Richmond and stopped at Shirley Plantation on Rt. 
5 in the hope of finding shorebirds. Unfortunately the big puddle-pond is 
almost all dried up and there was nothing there. Plus, we went to last year's 
Dickcissel spot and heard only a Chat.

Small redemption: Yellow-crowned Night-herons are back on the creek off of 
Powhatan Pkwy. in Newport News and Cliff Swallows are back at Jordan Point 
Marina, off of Rt.156 near Hopewell.


AAAGH.
Gerry Weinberger
Doswell


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