[va-richmond-general] Sunken Meadows lots of Sandpipers

 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
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