I visited Hog Island late this afternoon. I didn't see the avocets or a few
other species reported earlier by Arun Bose, but my travels were limited today.
There are lots of grassy areas for grasspipers to hide too! Only Great Egrets
were present at the southern pond and most of the birds were at the north end
of the WMA. Briefly saw a warbler that was similar to a Yellow Warbler, but my
view was terrible. I thought I saw a few Green-winged Teal, but they
disappeared, so I'm not sure. Also, eBird flagged the snipe, and the VA
Annotated Checklist (Goldbook) lists the early date as August 12th.Hog Island
WMA - CSW04, Surry, US-VA
Aug 22, 2012 5:15 PM - 7:20 PM
Protocol: Traveling
9.0 mile(s)
Comments: most of birds at north end of Hog Island
45 species (+1 other taxa)
Canada Goose 80
American Black Duck 5
Mallard 20
Blue-winged Teal 15
Northern Bobwhite 1
Great Blue Heron 5
Great Egret 17
Snowy Egret 6
Glossy Ibis 1
Turkey Vulture 3
Osprey 2
Bald Eagle 2
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Semipalmated Plover 5
Killdeer 3
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Solitary Sandpiper 1
Greater Yellowlegs 6
Lesser Yellowlegs 3
Semipalmated Sandpiper 10
Least Sandpiper 15
Pectoral Sandpiper 3
Stilt Sandpiper 13
Short-billed Dowitcher 9
Wilson's Snipe 2 saw birds in flight (long-billed with twisting flight)
and heard their scraping call note
Laughing Gull 6
Least Tern 8
Caspian Tern 33
Black Tern 1
Forster's Tern 3
Royal Tern 4
Mourning Dove 24
Eastern Wood-Pewee 1
Great Crested Flycatcher 1
Eastern Kingbird 12
Barn Swallow 15
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1
Eastern Bluebird 1
Northern Mockingbird 1
warbler sp. 1
Chipping Sparrow 10
Northern Cardinal 1
Blue Grosbeak 3
Bobolink 2 flyovers
Red-winged Blackbird 40
Eastern Meadowlark 14
This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org/VA)
Elisa Enders
Portsmouth, VA
