Birders,
Nice afternoon to be on the beach, cool with a brisk wind blowing from the NE.
The sand spit at Winter Harbor is no longer accessible but still viewable with
a scope.
Subject: eBird Report - Bethel Beach, Mathews County, Aug 29, 2011
Bethel Beach, Mathews County, Mathews, US-VA
Aug 29, 2011 12:15 AM - 2:30 AM
Protocol: Traveling
5.0 mile(s)
Comments: George & Rosemarie Harris. Apres Hurricane Irene ... a 150
foot breech has been cut thru at Winter Harbor creating an island.
34 species (+1 other taxa)
Double-crested Cormorant 23
Great Blue Heron 3
Great Egret 2
Black Vulture 4
Turkey Vulture 2
Osprey 5
American Kestrel 1
Clapper Rail 2
Black-bellied Plover 4
Semipalmated Plover 9
Willet 2
Marbled Godwit 2 Large shorebird with long, slightly upturned bill,
buff-brown mottled plumage.
Sanderling 23
Semipalmated Sandpiper 14
Short-billed Dowitcher 19
Short-billed/Long-billed Dowitcher 1
Laughing Gull 12
Herring Gull 6
Least Tern 2
Caspian Tern 2
Common Tern 4
Forster's Tern 11
Royal Tern 29
Black Skimmer 3
Mourning Dove 9
Eastern Kingbird 1
American Crow 8
Eastern Bluebird 2
Northern Mockingbird 2
Chipping Sparrow 2
Northern Cardinal 2
Blue Grosbeak 1
Red-winged Blackbird 1
American Goldfinch 3
House Sparrow 1
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2 (http://ebird.org/VA)
