The Clark's Grebe (outstanding images by Brenda Tekin at
http://home.ntelos.net/~btkin/Birds_of_the_Commonwealth/Gallery_pages/Clark%27sGrebe.htm
) finally
put in an appearance at 2:00 p.m. this afternoon in front of the beach
overlook at First Landing State Park. No Pacific or Arctic Loons have been
seen as
of 2:30, unfortunately; the weather is downright hot, with lots of heat haze
in the southwest breezes, and the loons are fewer than yesterday and mostly
well out to sea. Fort Story has been thoroughly checked during the day, with
only a redpoll and a Lesser Black-backed Gull (at the Harbormaster
Headquarters),
and I was amazed to see a flock of ELEVEN American White Pelicans coming in
off the ocean around 88th Street at 1:12 p.m. or so. I cell-phoned
grebe-hunters at First Landing, who watched the airborne armada glide right
over Shore
Drive, heading west! A great way to start the year. I haven't seen it
mentioned on the internet yet, but there was one adult Little Gull on the
Little Creek
CBC, seen at Fort Story by several counters. Bonaparte's Gull numbers are up
a bit, maybe 500 today, mostly in small flocks.
Ned Brinkley
Cape Charles, VA
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