Va birders
Last Wednesday there was a very cooperative RED-NECKED PHALOROPE at Craney:
http://home.comcast.net/~jjfoxfox/RNPH1.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~jjfoxfox/RNPH2.jpg
and a forlorn looking Heron on CBBT island #1. I thought juv YC
Night-heron at the time, but I'm not entirely sure that's right:
http://home.comcast.net/~jjfoxfox/juv_Heron.jpg
Thursday morning at Sunset Beach I finally got my ABA PHILLADELPHIA VIREO.
I love
it when that happens in Virginia. An adult GOLDEN EAGLE flew over the
bunker trail at ESV NWR later that morning; it was so unexpected that I
just gaped, forgot that I had a camera on my shoulder. Oh, well.
A family of Northern Bobwhite were in a field off Seaside later. I parked
and started to stalk them in hopes of a better shot but realized it was
private property, and let it slide. Jane Beavers and Bill Keith reported a
larger group near the GATR tract:
http://home.comcast.net/~jjfoxfox/Bobwhite.jpg
The Kiptopeke campground was a good place for BLACK-THROATED BLUE
WARBLERS. I was at #118 along the back side and over four days saw 3
adults and 1 first
year bird, without hardly even getting out of my chair.
The pelagic trip was a little slow but we had some AUDUBON SHEARWATERS.
Other than Gulls and Gannets, this is the best picture I've ever gotten on
a
boat:
http://home.comcast.net/~jjfoxfox/AUSH.jpg
I missed getting a shot of the CORY'S SHEARWATERS, but WILSON'S
STORM-PETRELS were abundant:
http://home.comcast.net/~jjfoxfox/WISP.jpg
The story of the trip, though, was on the way back in. A birder from
California was
out on the pulpit when the bow went down on a rising swell, which took him
right off the boat. He kept his head and got clear of anything that could
hit him, and
we fished him out right quick, unhurt. It was only later that it rattled
me. Eighty five miles from shore in six hundred fathoms and there's a guy
in the water. Yikes!
A couple from Norway stopped by the banding station on Sunday morning. He
was a bander, or ringer, too, and was telling us about his banding station
on an island off the coast of Norway. Their most common bird is Goldcrest.
See
http://www.birdguides.com/html/vidlib/species/Regulus_regulus.htm
They are stationed in Norfolk, I told them to Google on Va-bird; hopefuly
they'll get connected with this great community of birders.
Back home in my little patch of suburbia, a (first year male?) MAGNOLIA
WARBLER came through yesterday:
http://home.comcast.net/~jjfoxfox/MAWA1.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~jjfoxfox/MAWA2.jpg
It wasn't even a new yard bird, but it brightened up my day.
Good birding,
John Fox
Arlington
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