[nnasnet] 1:00 Bird Walk Monday March 9 Hughlett and Dameron
- From: Margaret Gerdts <maggieurbanna@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Ann Refuge Friends / Graziano <annfrank77@xxxxxxxxx>, Carolyn Evans <cbevans4n5@xxxxxxxxx>, Cathy Baldwin <atswanview@xxxxxxxxx>, Deb Bryant <deb.bryant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Katherine Paris <bayfishers3@xxxxxxx>, NNAS Hotline <nnasnet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, VA Master Naturalist Northern Neck Chapter <nnmnemail@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 21:29:32 -0500
HUGHLETT POINT & DAMERON MARSH BIRD WALK MARCH 9
On Monday March 9, the Northern Neck Audubon Society will conduct a
bird walk led by Frank Schaff at Hughlett Point and Dameron Marsh Natural Area
Preserves in Northumberland County. Both
preserves lie on peninsulas jutting into the Chesapeake Bay. Hughlett Point
offers
a wonderful opportunity for viewing birds and wildlife as it includes coastal
forest, shrub, salt marsh, and sandy beach habitats and a viewing platform.
Dameron Marsh offers views of the Chesapeake
Bay, Mill Creek and Ingram Bay. It also
has a viewing platform, sand beaches, marshes and a large fallow field with
scattered shrubs.
This is prime time for viewing waterfowl. Among possible sightings are scaups,
old
squaws, canvas backs, loons, horned grebes, golden eyes. surf scoters, gannets,
wigeons, tundra swans, ruddy ducks, buffleheads, mergansers, long-tailed ducks,
gulls, terns and bald eagles.
The group will meet at 1:00 p.m. at Shiloh School, an historical one
room school house built in 1906. Shiloh
School is located at the intersection of Shiloh School and Balls Neck Roads.
Carpools will leave Grace Episcopal Church in
Kilmarnock at 12:30 p.m. Directions for those driving directly are as
follows: From Burgess, take Rt.
200 south. Go approximately 8 miles and
turn left (east) on Shiloh School Road (Rt. 606). Shiloh School will be on the
left in a mile
and a half. From Kilmarnock, take
Rt. 200 north. Go approximately 5 miles
and turn right (east) on Shiloh
School Road (Rt. 606). Shiloh School will be on the left in a mile
and a half.
Please visit the website at www.northernneckaudubon.org
for information on upcoming events. Please call Frank Schaff at 804-462-0084 to
let him know that you are coming in
case the walk is cancelled.
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