Greetings Virginia Birders,
The Williamsburg Bird Club ventured across the James River (by ferry!) to Hog
Island Wildlife Management Area in Surry County for our regular 3rd Saturday
Field Trip. Bill Williams, VSO Board Member and one of the founders of the
Williamsburg Bird Club, led our group of 20 eager birders. Thank you, Bill!
The fields there are planted in corn, not yet harvested, and the impoundments
are full of water.
We observed 37 species with the highlight being 26 Bobolinks feeding on seed
heads at the tops of vegetation. The full list is below as Bill entered it into
eBird.
Additional species at the ferry: Forster's Tern, Royal Tern, Herring Gull,
Great Black-backed Gull, Rock Pigeon.
Shirley Devan
Williamsburg Bird Club
http://williamsburgbirdclub.org/
Ph: 757.813.1322
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Date: Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 3:00 PM
Subject: eBird Report - Hog Island WMA - CSW04, Sep 21, 2013
To: billwilliams154@xxxxxxxxx
Hog Island WMA - CSW04, Surry, US-VA
Sep 21, 2013 7:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Protocol: Traveling
2.5 mile(s)
Comments: Williamsburg Bird Club field trip; count includes all species
recorded from the security gate until the group left the facility; 62-79
degrees; partly cloudy then mostly cloudy; southeast breeze at 10-15 mph;
cultivated fields full of unharvested corn; impounded water ways full-other
fauna-one black rat snake; butterflies-Monarch, tiger swallowtail, common
buckeye, orange sulfur, cloudless sulfur, red-spotted
purple-dragonflies-common whitetail, black saddlebags, green darner
37 species (+1 other taxa)
Canada Goose 4
Mallard 12
Double-crested Cormorant 11
Great Blue Heron 11
Great Egret 20
Turkey Vulture 13
Osprey 3
Bald Eagle 2 two juveniles
Killdeer 6
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Least Sandpiper 2
Laughing Gull 3
Caspian Tern 38
Mourning Dove 6
Belted Kingfisher 1 a female
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 3
Pileated Woodpecker 1
Blue Jay 2
American Crow 2
Carolina Chickadee 3
Tufted Titmouse 1
Carolina Wren 5
Eastern Bluebird 1
American Robin 1
Northern Mockingbird 2
Common Yellowthroat 2
Pine Warbler 3
Eastern Towhee 2
Northern Cardinal 2
Blue Grosbeak 3
Indigo Bunting 4
Bobolink 26 great views for everyone
Red-winged Blackbird 9
Common Grackle 1
blackbird sp. 7
American Goldfinch 2
View this checklist online at
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S15221708
This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)
