From: Dorie_Stolley@xxxxxxx
To: va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Back Bay NWR, 8-27
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 14:37:59 -0400
Va-birders!
Here are results from a beach survey conducted at Back Bay NWR and False
Cape SP on August 27. All of the Piping Plovers were seen at False Cape
State Park.
Black-bellied Plover 11
Semiplamated Plover 38
Piping Plover 4
Willet 6
Ruddy Turnstone 2
Red Knot 7
Sanderling 643
Semipalmated Sandpiper 3
Western Sandpiper 1
"""Peep""" 4
Unidentified Shorebird 2
Great Black-backed Gull 45
Lesser Black-backed Gull 34
Herring Gull 20
Ringed-billed Gull 331
Laughing Gull 7
Caspian Tern 13
Royal Tern 232
Sandwich Tern 10
Forster's Tern 1
Common Tern 8
Double-crested Cormorant 3
Brown Pelican 121
Osprey 3
Northern Harrier 1
TOTAL 1550
Dorie Stolley
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Wildlife Biologist
Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge
4005 Sandpiper Road
Virginia Beach, VA 23456
Phone: (757) 721-2412
Fax: (757) 721-6141