Tom Saunders called midday yesterday to say there was an adult American
Golden-Plover in fields north of the landfill on the Seaside Road, Northampton
County. It was still there in the evening, right next to the road, among 185
or
so Black-bellied Plovers; gorgeous bird (short legs, long wings, showing 4
primary tips past the longest tertial: not a Pacific!). The Marbled Godwit and
Stilt Sandpipers had left, but there were still 32 Pectoral, 8 Western, 5
Semipalmated, and one White-rumped Sandpiper, a Greater and 2 Lesser
Yellowlegs, 2
Short-billed Dowitchers, 44 Killdeer, and 65+ Semipalmated Plovers. At Oyster
in the last hour or so of light, I counted about 3200 Bobolinks going to roost
(a small count, hopefully to grow in the next week or so), 300+ Eastern
Kingbirds, and impressive numbers of most egret/heron species. According to
Brian
Taber, last Sunday's front was a big one, with 'hundreds of orioles and
thousands of kingbirds' seen at the southern tip, so the next front should have
a
big impact on both species, which are still around in numbers locally.
Ned Brinkley
Cape Charles, VA
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