A watch for seabirds from Sunset Beach this evening (5:30 - 7:45 p.m.)
produced few birds that seemed to be long-distance waifs, if any. The complete
list
is below. Most birds came in 'pulses', with lulls in between small flocks of
terns, swallows, and shorebirds. As storms go, this one's cargo was
underwhelming, with no tropical flavor. Friends now in Wilmington said the
storm was
'negligible' there, and Hatteras folks report the same. Winds in this one
were maybe 30-35 at most, all from the ENE to NNE (no wind shift to SW as of
8:50
p.m.). Rains were heavy, flooding many fields on the Eastern Shore, which at
least holds out the promise of good shorebirding from backroads for the next
week (a good time for adult shorebirds to be passing through).
From Sunset Beach:
Osprey 5
Brown Pelican 50
D-c Cormorant 44
Great Black-backed Gull 4
Herring Gull 21
Laughing Gull 210
Ring-billed Gull 6
Caspian Tern 2
Royal Tern 56
Forster's Tern 2
Least Tern 3
Black Tern 11 (3 juv., 8 ad.)
Common Tern 315 (about 10 SY)
Sandwich Tern 6
tern sp. 23
Sanderling 12
Semipalmated Sandpiper 6
White-rumped Sandpiper 1 (with Semis)
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2
Belted Kingfisher 1
Chimney Swift 4
Barn Swallow 34
swallow sp. 4
Ned Brinkley
Cape Charles, VA
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