This recent visit to Chincoteague NWR was really challenging due to the wind.
Nevertheless quite a number of the species were as reported by the Birding
Festival group. The highlight was a BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER located by a visiting
birder from PA, I understand that is unusual.
For visitors to the lower Eastern Shore, there are some new accommodation
options. The new Holiday Inn Express in Exmore is now open, see
http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/pc/1/en/hotel/exrva?rpb=hotel&crUrl=/h/d/pc/1/en/hotelsearchresults
and just north of Stingray's there is Shore Stay Suites
http://www.shorestaysuites.com/ - they had a "Welcome Birders" flyer posted at ;
Stingray's.
Full bird list follows:
Location: Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge
Observation date: 9/23/08
Number of species: 68
Canada Goose X
Gadwall X
American Black Duck X
Lesser Scaup 1
Double-crested Cormorant X
Great Blue Heron X
Great Egret X
Snowy Egret X
Little Blue Heron X
Tricolored Heron X
Cattle Egret X
Black-crowned Night-Heron 1
Turkey Vulture X
Osprey 1
Merlin 1
Black-bellied Plover X
American Golden-Plover 1
Semipalmated Plover X
Killdeer 1
American Oystercatcher 1
Greater Yellowlegs X
Willet X
Lesser Yellowlegs X
Marbled Godwit 2
Sanderling X
Semipalmated Sandpiper X
Western Sandpiper X
Least Sandpiper X
Pectoral Sandpiper 10
Laughing Gull X
Ring-billed Gull X
Herring Gull X
Great Black-backed Gull X
Caspian Tern X
Common Tern 1
Forster's Tern X
Royal Tern X
Sandwich Tern X
Black Skimmer X
Rock Pigeon X
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
Belted Kingfisher 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Downy Woodpecker X
Northern Flicker X
Eastern Wood-Pewee X
Great Crested Flycatcher 1
Blue Jay X
American Crow X
Tree Swallow X
Carolina Chickadee X
Brown-headed Nuthatch X
Carolina Wren X
Swainson's Thrush 1
American Robin X
Brown Thrasher 1
European Starling X
Cedar Waxwing 1
Magnolia Warbler 2
Black-throated Blue Warbler 2
Blackburnian Warbler 1
Pine Warbler X
Black-and-white Warbler 1
American Redstart X
Northern Cardinal X
Red-winged Blackbird X
Common Grackle 1
Boat-tailed Grackle X
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)
Wendy Ealding
Powhatan County
