[va-richmond-general] Possible WILSON'S SNIPE at Powhatan Lakes 8/5/08

I was really surprised to see what appeared to be a WILSON'S SNIPE at Powhatan 
Lakes this morning.  I had walked along the road between the two lakes and 
walked out on to the dock at the end of the lower lake.  I spooked a shorebird 
and it flew into the long grass at the edge of the right hand side of the lake. 
 It was an extremely brief view, my impression was of a long-billed somewhat 
chunky shorebird with a strongly marked back with longitudinal white stripes.  
I was never able to relocate it as the area it flew in to was inaccessible.  No 
vocalization.

This is extremely early - Virginia's Birdlife indicates extreme earliest dates 
at least a week later.


Wendy Ealding
Powhatan County

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