All,
During a brief visit this morning to the beach about a mile south of the
Cape Charles harbor, I was somewhat surprised to find five semi-palmated
plovers as well as a single black-bellied plover and one common loon.
The semis all looked like adult birds but the black-bellied was in basic
(winter) plumage, so it is probably a first year bird that didn't
migrate. The loon was likewise still in basic plumage. The rest of the
meager list is below.
Tom Saunders
Kilmarnock and Cape Charles
Observation date: 6/14/07
Number of species: 12
Common Loon - Gavia immer 1
Brown Pelican - Pelecanus occidentalis 38
Double-crested Cormorant - Phalacrocorax auritus 20
Osprey - Pandion haliaetus 1
Bald Eagle - Haliaeetus leucocephalus 1
Black-bellied Plover - Pluvialis squatarola 1
Semipalmated Plover - Charadrius semipalmatus 5
American Oystercatcher - Haematopus palliatus 1
Laughing Gull - Larus atricilla 9
Forster's Tern - Sterna forsteri 7
Barn Swallow - Hirundo rustica 4
Red-winged Blackbird - Agelaius phoeniceus 6
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)
