We did our annual spring weekend (albeit a bit later than usual) to
Chincoteague this past weekend, 6/5-6/7-04. We had many good birds for the
weekend, best probably being the Black Rail at Saxis marsh the night of 6/6
and the Summer Tanager on the Woodland Trail the morning of 6/6.
The complete list which includes Chincoteague, the causeway, town and Saxis
marxh follows with comments where needed:
Common Loon, 2 in Toms Cove, 1 in breeding plummage, 1 in basic plummage
Double crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Tri-colored Heron
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Black crowned Night Heron, watched one catch and eat an eel
Glossy Ibis
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Gadwall
American Black Duck
Mallard
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Peregrine
Northern Bobwhite
Black Rail, 1 at Saxis
Clapper Rail
Virginia Rail, about 15 at Saxis
Semipalmated Plover
Piping Plover, 1 seen on 6/5 and 6/6
Killdeer
American Oystercatcher
Black necked Stilt, 2 on the causeway
Greater Yellowlegs
Willet
Spotted Sandpiper
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Seimpalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
White rumped Sandpiper
Dunlin
Stilt Sandpiper
Short billed Dowitcher
Laughing Gull
Ring billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great black backed Gull
Gull billed Tern
Royal Tern
Common Tern
Forsters Tern
Least Tern
Black Skimmer
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Yellow billed Cuckoo
Chuck wills Widow
Chimney Swift
Ruby throated Hummingbird
Red headed Woodpecker, 2 on the Woodland Trail
Red bellied Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Eastern Wood Pewee
Great crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
White eyed Vireo
Red eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Purple Martin
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
Brown headed Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
House Wren
Marsh Wren, many at Saxis marsh
Eastern Bluebird
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
European Starling
Yellow Warbler, Saxis
Pine Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Ovenbird
Common Yellowthroat
Yellow breasted Chat
Summer Tanager
Eastern Towhee
Saltmarsh Sharptailed Sparrow (Mary Alice saw only)
Seaside Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Red winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Common Grackle
Boat tailed Grackle
Brown headed Cowbird
Orchard Oriole
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
Glenn Koppel and Mary Alice Koeneke
koppel@xxxxxxxxx
Centreville, VA 20120-2901
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