Well, score one for our $50,000.00/one acre/wetland mitigation project at the
mouth of Hunting Creek in Alexandria. Went over this evening to catch the
mudflats exposing themselves as the tide receeded. The new plantings have been
thru a few tide cycles at this point - Pepsi bottles and foam footballs are
showing up - so just for fun, I scanned the area. One SPOTTED SANDPIPER was
working around the new arum plants - son of a gun! I was inspired to check for
an
Avocet, but could not find one...
Other birds on the mudflats this evening...approx 100 Laughing gulls - 4 or
5x that for Ringers, a few Greater BB Gulls, one Foresters Tern, 5 Spotteds, 30
Killdeer, 30 Yellowlegs (90% Lessers) a handful of peeps - the ones not in
the glare of the setting sun were Leasts, 12 G. Egrets (no snowies yet!) -
Rich
Rieger
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