VA Birders,
Last weekend, visiting California birder Mike Rogers and I birded a number of
areas along the Virginia and North Carolina coast, with the following
highlights:
21 Feb -- 3 female Common Eiders, 2 Harlequin Ducks (pair) on CBBT; 1 male
Redhead and 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull at Northampton County landfill; 1
Red-necked Grebe at Cape Charles harbor; 3 Eurasian Collared-Doves along Rt.
600 east of Kiptopeke.
22 Feb -- 1 adult Little Gull at Fort Story (seen from First Landing
observation platform in late afternoon), 55 Lesser Black-backed Gulls at
Virginia Beach (49 along the beach at Sandbridge, with 34 visible
simultaneously in a 1/4-mile stretch of beach).
23 Feb (North Carolina) -- 1 adult Thayer's Gull at Cape Hatteras (Cape Point);
20 Lesser Black-backed Gulls at a campground in Rodanthe; 1 adult California
Gull and 11 Piping Plovers at Oregon Inlet.
24 Feb -- 3 female Common Eiders, 2 Harlequin Ducks (both females) at CBBT;
very few birds at Chincoteague
This morning (25 Feb) in Prince William County, we had 2 Lesser Black-backed
Gulls at Neabsco Creek and great views of a first-winter Thayer's Gull at the
Prince William County Landfill (there are currently no accepted records of this
species in the Virginia Piedmont). Also at the landfill were approximately
20,000 Ring-billed Gulls, 1000+ Herring Gulls, 25 Great Black-backed Gulls, 4
Lesser Black-backed Gulls, and an apparent Herring x Glaucous Gull hybrid.
Good birding,
Steve Rottenborn
Culpeper County, VA
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