All,
Chincoteague NWR, today:
Brown Pelican (Assateague Channel)
GB Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron (Tom's Cove & Marsh Trail)
Tricolored Heron
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night Heron
Glossy Ibis
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Peregrine Falcon
Clapper Rail
Black-bellied Plover (Assateague Channel & Tom's Cove)
American Golden Plover (from observation platform, Marsh Trail)
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
American Oyster Catcher (Assateague Channel & Tom's Cove)
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Willet
Spotted Sandpiper
Whimberel (Assateague Channel)
Marbled Godwit (Assateague Channel and Tom's Cove)
Sanderling
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper (50+ from observation platform, Marsh Trail)
Stilt Sandpiper
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Great blackbacked Gull
Caspian Tern
Royal Tern
Sandwhich Tern (mud flats just across from Tom's Cove Visitor Center)
Common Tern
Forster's Tern
Least Tern
Black Skimmer
... and the rest of the usual suspects.
Also, credible second hand report of buff-breasted sandpiper from observation
platform, Marsh Trail.
Paul Kane
Falls Church, VA
