Sorry for the late report, but had a nice, though hot day at Chincoteague
National Seashore on the 23rd. Sightings included
Brown Pelican 2
DC Cormorant 16
Great Blue Heron 2
Great Egret 14
Snowy Egret 17
Little Blue Heron 13
Tricolored Heron 1
Cattle Egret 4
Glossy Ibis 1
Black Vulture 2
Turkey Vulture 8
Snow Goose 4
Canada Goose 248
Wood Duck 2
American Black Duck 20
Mallard 45
N. Shoveler 16
Osprey 1
Bald Eagle 1 adult
Peregrin 1 juv. banded
Am Golden Plover 1
Black-bellied Plover 5
Semi-Palmated Plover 55+
Killdeer 14+
Am. Oystercatcher 9
Greater Yellowlegs 3
Lesser Yellowlegs 6
Willet 168
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Hudsonian Godwit 1
Marbled Godwit 5
Ruddy Turnstone 9
Sanderling 32
Semipalmated Sandpiper 8++
Western Sandpiper 1
Least Sandpiper 7++
There were more peeps further pout that I did not try to separate.
Pectoral Sandpiper 82+ a couple large groups.
Short-billed Dowitcher 5
Long-billed Dowitcher 3
Gulls: Laughing (most numerous), Herring, and Ring-billed
Caspian tern 22+
Royal Tern 21+
Commom Tern 1
Forster's Tern 38
Black Skimmer 210
Mourning Dove 1
Belted Kingfisher 2
Downy Woodpecker 2
N. Flicker 1
E. Wood-Pewee 1
Blue Jay 2
American Crow 2
Carolina Chickadee 7
Brown-headed Nuthatch 1
Carolina Wren 1
Am. Robin 20+
Eur. Starling 6+
Black-throated Blue Warbler 1 male
Pine Warbler 3
Palm Wabler 6
Black-and-white Warbler 1
Am. Redstart 1 fem.
Common Yellowthroat 1 male
n. Cardinal 8
Red-winged Blackbird 19+
Common Grackle 3
Jim Goehring
Universoty of Mary Washington
James E. Goehring
Department of Classics, Philosophy, and Religion
University of Mary Washington
Fredericksburg, VA 22401
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