A service of the Northern Neck Audubon Society---
A brief visit to HP this afternoon was enough to confirm that winter is here.
There were 19 tundra (whistling) swans north of the beach entrance and
buffleheads, surf scoters and common loons were scattered over many acres of
the bay just off shore. We saw a few sanderlings and about a dozen dunlin
worked the exposed peat banks along the beach. A flock of about 45 Canada geese
passed overhead. Ring-billed gulls loafed about in the lagoon, as well as a
great blue heron. Least expected was a chattering belted kingfisher flying well
out over the Bay, far from its usual hunting grounds of quiet water with handy
perches.
Sadly we also came across a couple fairly fresh dead birds, a common loon and a
double crested cormorant. It’s hard to say what happened to them.
Tom Saunders
Ball’s Neck
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