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From: scrocket <scrocket@xxxxxxx>
Date: January 26, 2021 at 8:03:48 PM EST
To: Susan Crockett <scrocket@xxxxxxx>
Subject: February 2 Bird Walk
No longer tentative:
February 2 Bird Walk at Brent and Becky’s Bulbs, 7900 Daffodil Lane, Ware Neck
area, at 8:00 am. Bring your binoculars and enjoy watching and listening to the
variety of birds found on the property. Brent and Becky’s Bulbs is listed as a
birding “hotspot” on eBird (Cornell University’s website of citizen birding
observations). https://ebird.org/home
Masks are required, as well as social distancing. Bring your own binoculars.
The Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) is a non-group event: February 12 - 15,
2021
In 1998 the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society
launched the Great Backyard Bird Count as the first online citizen-science
project to collect data on wild birds. Now more than 160,000 people worldwide
join the four-day count each February to create an annual snapshot of the
distribution and abundance of birds. Participation is simple: For at least 15
minutes on one or more days of the count, tally the numbers and kinds of birds
you see and enter online. https://www.birdcount.org/about/
In addition to your own backyard you can count birds in our local parks and
explore our local Department of Wildlife Resources "Virginia Bird and Wildlife
Trails": Mathews Loop, Gloucester Loop, and Mattaponi Loop
https://dwr.virginia.gov/vbwt/coastal-trail/
Bird List from Bethel Beach bird walk January 21:
Mute Swan 1
Tundra Swan 4
Surf Scoter 31
Black Scoter 1
Bufflehead 9
Horned Grebe 4
Black-bellied Plover 2
Sanderling 16
Dunlin 145
Ring-billed Gull 66
Herring Gull 1
Great Black-backed Gull 4
Forster's Tern 2
Common Loon 3
Brown Pelican 2
Great Blue Heron 6
Bald Eagle 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
American Crow 1
Carolina Chickadee 1
Tufted Titmouse 1
Brown-headed Nuthatch 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 4
Bird List from New Point Comfort January 21:
Canada Goose 110
Bufflehead 65
Great Black-backed Gull 3
Forster’s Tern 6
Great Blue Heron 1
Bald Eagle 3
Yellow-rumped Warbler 60 Rapid flight from marsh shrubs to marsh grass and
back; used a spotting scope focused on the shrubs to confirm the ID; there may
have been more but it was hard to determine the numbers.
