[va-richmond-general] East of Richmond, 7/25/2009

[I tried sending this once, but I don't think it went out - sorry if this is a repeat]
I made a circuit out Route 5 and back in Route 10 yesterday. I found a couple of Solitary Sandpipers and a Snowy Egret at Crewe's Channel. I don't know if Snowy Egret is unusual - it was the first I had seen in the Richmond area. At Shirley I turned up a few Least Sandpipers and two Greater Yellowlegs in the big impoundment. In the same area, I got a brief glimpse of the immature White Ibis that has been reported there, flying over with a Glossy Ibis. There wasn't much going on at the Harrison Lake Fish Hatchery. The areas that were muddy last summer were largely vegetated today. A nice surprise was a Red-headed Woodpecker at Dutch Gap, the first I have seen there in a number of years. It perched on the highest snag visible from the first platform looking toward the power plant for about 10 minutes. 

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Lewis Barnett -- Chair, Dept. of Math & CS, U. of Richmond, VA 23173
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