Hello Birders,
While out searching (unsuccessfully) for Saltmarsh Sparrows in Mathews
County this Firday, Fenton Day and I came across some nice birds. At each
bay beach stop we found a nice variety of terns including Sandwich Terns at
every stop. Oystercatchers were also present at every stop.
At South Haven Beach, there were 8 immature White Ibises.
There was a female Red-breasted Merganser across the creek on Rigby Island.
At Bethel Beach, there were 18 Mute Swans in the cove to go along with a
nice tern flock and 9 Black Skimmers (one "portlandica" Common Tern, also).
Two Short-billed Dowitchers and a lone Black-bellied Plover (likely a
summer holdover) were the only shorebirds apart from oystercatchers.
Seaside Sparrows were signing in several locations across the marsh.
At New Point Comfort there were 4 Brown Pelicans on distant pilings.
Good birds,
Ellison
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Ellison Orcutt
Birder/Naturalist
Richmond, Va
Cell: (804) 339-6976
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