Thanks to Jim Elder for posting his great photos from the VSO weekend at
Chincoteague. Great time, beautiful place, and plenty of birds. Thanks to
all who planned and led this trip!
My personal list included 69 species at Chincoteague, plus a few more at
Eastern Shore of Virginia NWR and CBBT stops. Lists below.
Chincoteague photos are here
<http://ddpix.smugmug.com/Rest-of-Virginia/Chincoteague-September-2013/31983
168_K4mv79#!i=2776431469&k=sB2J3BM> . These include flight shots of two
Merlin, referred to in Jim's message.
Chincoteague
ESNWR (Marsh overlook and boat ramp)
CBBT (southmost island and overlook area at north end)
American Oystercatcher
Belted Kingfisher
American Oystercatcher
American Redstart
Black Vulture
Brown Pelican
American Robin
Brown Pelican
Caspian Tern
Baird's Sandpiper
Clapper Rail
Double-crested Cormorant
Bald Eagle
Great Blue Heron
Herring Gull
Baltimore Oriole
Laughing Gull
Laughing Gull
Bar-tailed Godwit
Snowy Egret
Least Sandpiper
Bay-breasted Warbler
Osprey
Belted Kingfisher
Ring-billed Gull
Black Skimmer
Ruddy Turnstone
Black Vulture
Sanderling
Black-and-white Warbler
Willet
Black-bellied Plover
Blue Jay
Blue-winged Teal
Boat-tailed Grackle
Brown-headed Nuthatch
Carolina Chickadee
Caspian Tern
Cattle Egret
Chimney Swift
Clapper Rail
Common Yellowthroat
Connecticut Warbler
Double-crested Cormorant
Eastern Kingbird
European Starling
Forster's Tern
Gray Catbird
Great Black-backed Gull
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Greater Yellowlegs
Green Heron
Herring Gull
Indigo Bunting
Killdeer
Laughing Gull
Least Sandpiper
Least Tern
Lesser Yellowlegs
Little Blue Heron
Mallard
Marbled Godwit
Merlin
Mourning Dove
Northern Cardinal
Northern Flicker
Osprey
Palm Warbler
Peregrine Falcon
Piping Plover
Prairie Warbler
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Red-eyed Vireo
Royal Tern
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Semipalmated Plover
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Snowy Egret
Song Sparrow
Tree Swallow
Tricolored Heron
Turkey Vulture
White Ibis
White-rumped Sandpiper
Willet
