Folks,
If anyone happens to be out birding in the Virginia Beach area today...
Jason Strickland & I encountered 4 Red Knots along the beach while walking
from False Cape State Park northward to the parking area at Back Bay NWR at
about 1 PM. The birds were seen roughly 1 mile south of the Back Bay NWR
parking areas. Perhaps these are some holdovers from the group encountered
on Friday by Ron Furnish & Marie Mullins. Either way, they were a state
first for me, and the first I've seen in breeding plumage, showing off
their namesake coloring! Shorebirds species were low along this stretch
with just Sanderlings, Semipalmated Sandpipers, 2 Ruddy Turnstones & 2
Black-bellied Plovers seen, so they were a welcome sight in that regard as
well!
Rob Bielawski
Virginia Beach, VA
