Prompted by a posting from yesterday about shorebirds on flooded fields at
Ft Monroe, I spent a couple hours there this morning. I didn't find
several of the species reported, but the highlight was certainly a
Buff-breasted
Sandpiper near the location reported. The bird was foraging in the dryer
part of the field near several Killdeer. If you visit this area, be
respectful of the concrete barriers...crossing them will bring a response from
security.
On the far end of the field was another flooded area which contained 5
Yellow-crowned Night Herons. I made a short stop along the sea wall and found
5 American Oystercatchers resting on the jetty.
Dave Youker
Yorktown, VA
Fort Monroe, Hampton, US-VA
Aug 30, 2012 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Protocol: Traveling
2.0 mile(s)
33 species (+1 other taxa)
Canada Goose 127
Mallard 6
Double-crested Cormorant 14
Brown Pelican 4
Great Blue Heron 1
Great Egret 2
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 6 group of 5 juveniles; 1 adult separate
Osprey 3
Cooper's Hawk 2
Semipalmated Plover 4
Killdeer 29
American Oystercatcher 5
Spotted Sandpiper 2
Willet 1
Sanderling 13
Semipalmated Sandpiper 4
Buff-breasted Sandpiper 1
Laughing Gull 35
Ring-billed Gull 4
Herring Gull 5
Great Black-backed Gull 11
Gull-billed Tern 3 2 feeding along sea wall still had complete black cap;
1 molting adult preening on post had residual cap still. This location is
not far from the tunnel island where they nest.
Forster's Tern 3
Royal Tern 4
Rock Pigeon 6
Mourning Dove 36
Downy Woodpecker 1
American Crow 4
Fish Crow 1
crow sp. 2
European Starling 70
Common Grackle 1
House Finch 2
House Sparrow 12
This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (_http://ebird.org_ ;
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