It was a cool, windy, rainy day surveying the marshes at New Point Comfort
in Mathews. Most of the bird activity was offshore. There was a nice
movement of Common and Red-throated Loons with 43 and 49, respectively,
observed. Good numbers of Brown Pelicans and Northern Gannets were feasting
on
schools of fish close to shore. Sea ducks were hard to find today.
Dave Youker
Yorktown, VA
New Point Comfort Preserve - CMT08, Mathews, Virginia, US
Nov 22, 2015 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Protocol: Traveling
1.0 mile(s)
Comments: Part of Western Shore Marshes IBA
41 species
Tundra Swan 36
Surf Scoter 2
Black Scoter 2
Bufflehead 2
Red-throated Loon 49
Common Loon 43
Horned Grebe 4
Northern Gannet 127
Double-crested Cormorant 39
Brown Pelican 223 Counted individually; Large flock feeding with
Northern Gannets and equally sized group resting on lighthouse rocks.
Great Blue Heron 2
Cooper's Hawk 1
Bald Eagle 5
Clapper Rail 1
Ruddy Turnstone 1
Sanderling 35
Dunlin 18
Laughing Gull 5
Ring-billed Gull 37
Herring Gull 65
Great Black-backed Gull 17
Mourning Dove 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
Peregrine Falcon 1
Blue Jay 1
American Crow 2
Carolina Chickadee 3
Brown-headed Nuthatch 10
Marsh Wren 1
Carolina Wren 2
Eastern Bluebird 2
Brown Thrasher 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 13
White-throated Sparrow 4
Savannah Sparrow 8 Two were Ipswich
Song Sparrow 7
Swamp Sparrow 7
Eastern Towhee 2
Northern Cardinal 3
Red-winged Blackbird 3
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