A fast survey of birds on or about the Chesapeake Bay-Bridge Tunnel late
Tuesday afternoon before nightfall included:
A Harlequin Duck, female, a Long-tailed Duck, a Surf Scotor, and three Black
Scotors off island 2. Also a few distant skeins of Scotors, maybe sixty in
total.
Five Fox Sparrows, one Song Sparrow, four White-throated Sparrows, and eight
Dark-eyed Juncos scattered among islands 2, 3, and 4.
Forty Purple Sandpipers, one Sanderling, and a single Ruddy Turnstone (too
dark to bird island 1) on island 4.
Thirty Bonaparte Gulls off island 4. Also, at least 50 Laughing Gulls, and a
myriad of Black-backed, Herring, and Ring-billed Gulls lining the rocks, but
not sufficient time to scan carefully for rarities.
Gannets and D-C Cormorants.
Most of the daylight time was spent in the mustard fields in Northampton
County scanning the lingering Tree Swallows in hopes that a Cave Swallow or
two remained. (As Ned Brinkley has reported, none were seen on Tuesday)
Ralph Wall
Great Falls, VA
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