Lynda and I spent the day on the eastern shore. It was a very windy,
blustery, chilly day. The birds were not very plentiful....places we
usually saw lots had nothing and the usual suspects were missing in most
places.
- a few ruddy turnstones in breeding colors in the parking lot of the
first island of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge tunnel
- not a single bird or duck or anything at the pond at the boat ramp of
eastern shore nwr
- black crowned night herons plentiful at the dump at Oyster...at least
30 we saw, about half juvies, half adults. Also had 100 or so white ibis
in the trees
- black bellied plovers at the beach at Chincoteague. Several dozen of
them on the sound side behind the first port-a-john on the beach front.
-at least three different sets of banded oyster catchers.
-several hundred willet on the off road beach
-there is an injured surf scoter at Kiptopeke. It looks like he has an
injured or broken wing. We was diving and seemed to be eating, but the
wing was definitely not working.
The wind was just awful and made it difficult to get pictures. The
inside of my jeep is covered in sand where it was blowing in so hard.
We had to struggle to open the doors with the heavy winds. Even with
that, we had fun and made a good day of it. I am whooped and pics will
have to wait until tomorrow.
Non-bird notes:
We saw quite a few of the ponies and one had a colt(?) that was the
cutest little thing.
We had a muskrat family at Cape Charles....two little ones there.
Barbara Houston
New Kent, VA
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