VA-birders,
Here are the results of surveys done at Back Bay NWR in Virginia Beach.
Beach surveys cover False Cape State Park as well, all the way to the NC
border. Most of the terns were seen in False Cape.
Beach survey, 10/14:
Double-crested Cormorant 2
Brown Pelican 32
Great Blue Heron 2
Black-bellied Plover 6
Sanderling 343
Great Black-backed Gull 37
Lesser Black-backed Gull 45
Herring Gull 23
Ringed-billed Gull 141
Laughing Gull 56
Caspian Tern 12
Royal Tern 11
Sandwich Tern 35
Forster's Tern 88
Impoundment survey, 10/13:
Pied-billed Grebe 28
Double-crested Cormorant 3
Great Blue Heron 4
Great Egret 12
Tri-colored Heron 1
Northern Harrier 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Merlin 1
Belted Kingfisher 4
Mallard 131
Green-winged Teal 140
Blue-winged Teal 25
Northern Pintail 21
Wood Duck 3
Canada Goose 4
Common Moorhen 1 (juv., dead)
Black-bellied Plover 8
Semiplamated Plover 12
Killdeer 3
Greater Yellowlegs 4
Pectoral Sandpiper 6
"Peep" 1
Ringed-billed Gull 6
Laughing Gull 1
Caspian Tern 9
Royal Tern 1
During the 3 hr. and 20 min. of the impoundment survey, 670 Double-crested
Cormorants were seen flying south in loose "V" formations!
Dorie
Dorie Stolley
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Wildlife Biologist
Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge
4005 Sandpiper Road
Virginia Beach, VA 23456
htttp://backbay.fws.gov
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