Had some comp time at work that had to be used so instead of going to Henricus like I do a few days a week after work I went East a bit to Sunken Meadows in Surry County. I work in Hopewell. There were a few Great Blue Herons on both sides of the road. 1 Snipe only a few hundred feet away from where a bunch of us saw a pair last Spring. The ones in 2004 were visible for a long time Dr. Suttle got some great pictures of them. The Osprey pair was back this year. There was one Green Heron in the cove on the James River side. There were at lest 9 Spotted Sand Pipers total in the lakes on both sides of the road. They were mostly in pairs ,some of them doing mating ritual type behavior. The best sigtings were pairs on logs. Spotteds like to perch on logs and find food sources on them too. I had never seen so many of this species more than 2O miles from the ocean . A few terns were at the Jamestone Ferry landings. Very few Cormorants were perching in the area most were out fishing and not sighted. Dutch Gap had some this week too You are subscribed to VA-Richmond-General. To unsubscribe, send email to va-richmond-general-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. To adjust other settings (vacation, digest, etc.) please visit, //www.freelists.org/list/va-richmond-general.