Yesterday afternoon there was an adult female American avocet in the northern lagoon at Hughlett Point NAP, Northumberland County, lower Northern Neck. There were also several tri-colored herons, eight semi-palmated plovers, three least sandpipers and a smattering of sanderlings. Hundreds of double-crested cormorants on the pound nets off shore, four blue-winged teal, Forster's and royal terns, osprey, great blue herons and the expected gull species rounded out the list. Tom Saunders Kilmarnock