[va-richmond-general] Whimbrels, Willis Wharf 7/20/2009

I spent the day on the Eastern Shore yesterday, starting at Chincoteague and working south. Jon Little, who posted to VA-BIRD on Saturday about his visit to Chincoteague, saw just about everything I did and more, so I won't dwell on that part of the day, except to say that I had a much easier time finding the black-billed Great Egret near the flood control gate on the southern side of the Wildlife Loop, and the number of Least Sandpipers seems to have bumped up. I did find a good number of Short-billed Dowitchers along Beach Road and off the Wildlife Loop, which Jon didn't mention.
My big find of the day was four Whimbrels picking through the mud at Willis Wharf, which I managed to hit just an hour or so after low tide. There wasn't a lot of other activity there - a few gulls of expected types and a couple of Black Skimmers. 

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Lewis Barnett -- http://www.mathcs.richmond.edu/~lbarnett/


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