I visited Hog Island WMA in Surry County today. Water levels are still pretty
high so shorebirds were, again, tough to find. I scraped up a few but had to
work for them. No "grasspipers" yet. Best birds were 3 STILT SANDPIPERS along
the water's edge at the north end. Other shorebird species included KILLDEER,
SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, both YELLOWLEGS, SPOTTED, LEAST and SEMIPALMATED
SANDPIPERS. Tern numbers have increased and 4 species were noted, CASPIAN,
ROYAL, FORSTER'S and LEAST. The AMERICAN COOT was still hanging out in the
first impoundment. For anyone interested in approximate numbers, I pasted the
ebird list below. Good birding.
Adam D'Onofrio
Dinwiddie Co.
Hog Island WMA - CSW04, Surry, US-VA
Aug 10, 2011 8:00 AM - 1:15 PM
Protocol: Traveling
5.0 mile(s)
55 species
Canada Goose 85
Mallard 1
Double-crested Cormorant 4
Great Blue Heron 20
Great Egret 25
Turkey Vulture 6
Osprey 15
Bald Eagle 5
Red-tailed Hawk 1
American Coot 1 same bird reported to ebird on 8/4/11
Semipalmated Plover 6
Killdeer 20
Spotted Sandpiper 8
Greater Yellowlegs 2
Lesser Yellowlegs 4
Semipalmated Sandpiper 3
Least Sandpiper 12
Stilt Sandpiper 3
Laughing Gull 12
Least Tern 10
Forster's Tern 6
Caspian Tern 40
Royal Tern 12
Mourning Dove 7
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Red-headed Woodpecker 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee 2
Great Crested Flycatcher 1
Eastern Kingbird 6
Red-eyed Vireo 1
Blue Jay 1
American Crow 5
Purple Martin 20
Tree Swallow 2
Barn Swallow 45
Carolina Chickadee 2
Carolina Wren 8
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1
Eastern Bluebird 1
Gray Catbird 1
Northern Mockingbird 2
Brown Thrasher 1
European Starling 50
Common Yellowthroat 3
Pine Warbler 1
Eastern Towhee 1
Northern Cardinal 6
Blue Grosbeak 6
Indigo Bunting 4
Red-winged Blackbird 20
Eastern Meadowlark 2
House Finch 2
American Goldfinch 8
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2 ( http://ebird.org ;)