After the Dyke Marsh walk I headed up to the Hunting Creek bridge in Alexandria
to look for shorebirds, accompanied by Phil Silas and one other birder (sorry,
I am lousy with names). The tide was going out and some mudflats were exposed
to the east. Many yellowlegs of both species were present, along with a good
number of peeps which looked like leasts (at a distance and into the sun). We
also found several semipalmated plovers, but the highlight was a marbled
godwit. It was on the north side of the mudflats behind some spatterdock. We
could see its head and upper body, but it kept disappearing behind the
vegetation. By the time I left I could not longer find it.
Marc Ribaudo
