I had a late start this morning, but headed out to Grandview to mainly look for
Brant, but also see if the Snow Buntings and Lapland Longspurs were still
there. In my usual silliness, I forgot that it was duck hunting season. There
were a fair number of ducks out there, but they were mostly distant. The Snow
Buntings were feeding on grass seed heads in the very northern section of the
beach restoration area. At one point they flew out to one of the rock
breakwater structures, but eventually returned to the grass. I failed to find
any longspurs, but there are plenty of spots for them. 2015-01-19
11:16Grandview Nature Preserve - CLP13Protocol: Traveling2.5 Miles286
MinutesObservers: 1All birds reported? Yes 12 Gadwall 1
Mallard 20 Greater/Lesser Scaup 50 Surf Scoter
10 White-winged Scoter 3 Black Scoter 40
Long-tailed Duck 100 Bufflehead 3 Common Goldeneye
30 Red-breasted Merganser 3 Red-throated Loon
22 Common Loon 15 Northern Gannet 1 Double-crested
Cormorant 1 Black-bellied Plover 20 Ruddy Turnstone
100 Sanderling 80 Dunlin 30 Bonaparte's
Gull 20 Ring-billed Gull 120 Herring Gull
10 Great Black-backed Gull 100 gull sp. 3 Mourning
Dove 1 Belted Kingfisher 1 Downy Woodpecker
1 American Crow 2 crow sp. 1 Horned Lark - heard
only 3 Carolina Chickadee 2 Carolina Wren 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
Northern Mockingbird 1 European Starling 13 Snow
Bunting 5 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 7 Savannah
Sparrow (Eastern) 1 Song Sparrow 5 Swamp Sparrow
4 Northern Cardinal 9 Red-winged Blackbird 1
Eastern Meadowlark 1 Common Grackle
Elisa Flanders
Portsmouth, VA
