There were relatively few migrant shorebirds present when I checked the
Hunting Creek flats Saturday morning about three hours after low tide.
(With the sediment build up over the last few years, the flats on both
sides of the GW Parkway seem to usually stay exposed for 3 to 4 hours
after low tide.)
0830 to 0945 EDT: scanning flats from base of sound wall at W end of
apartments; from small mound at upstream end of shore between creek and
the dry mitigation "pond"; and W and E from GW Parkway bridge.
26 - 28 C; hazy overcast to bright, hazy sun; calm; humid; low tide
0545; small areas of E side bars and flats still above water when I
left;
# East of GW Parkway / # W of Parkway;
Canada Goose 40 / -
Wood Duck 1 / -
Mallard 14 / 1
Great Blue Heron 11 / -
Great Egret 2 / 3
Snowy Egret - / 2
Osprey 17 / 3 [all in sight simultaneously]
Killdeer 1 / 16
Greater Yellowlegs 1 / 3
Lesser Yellowlegs - / 2
Semipalmated Sandpiper - / 14 (including 2 juv.)
Western Sandpiper - / 1
Least Sandpiper - / 12 ((including 4 juv.)
Laughing Gull 45 / -
Ring-Billed Gull 195 / 26
Herring Gull 2 / -
Great Black-Backed Gull 7 / 1
Caspian Tern 2 / -
Forster's Tern 14 / 2
Least Tern - / 1 (white forehead, yellow bill noted);
. . . .
Sherman Suter
Alexandria VA 22307
ssuter aaas org
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