Can't add anything else to the Dismal Swamp reports as we got most of what
was already reported (with 1 Wild Turkey thrown in), but here are some other
reports from the Eastern Shore we had this weekend:
These are from Sunday 4/19
Back Bay NWR 1 Eastern Kingbird
Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel At least 30 Purple Sandpipers at Island 1, 1
lone Long-tailed Duck and still some Northern Gannets moving through.
Eastern Shore NWR 1 Wild Turkey
Magotha Road, 1 Eurasian Collared Dove
Willis Wharf, at least 25 Whimbrel, 2 Gull-billed Terns, still a pair of
Bufflehead, 1 Marbled Godwit
Chincoteague NWR, 9 Marbled Godwit, several Black-bellied Plover, 3 Merlin,
1 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 2 Piping Plovers, 5 Cattle Egret and 1 Wild
Turkey
In Town Chincoteague, a large flock of Brant
Monday 4/20
Chincoteague NWR, White-eyed Vireo, Blue-headed Vireo, Prothonotary
Warbler, 11 Marbled Godwit, 2 Piping Plover, 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull
Chincoteague Causeway, 4 Black-necked Stilts
Glenn Koppel and Mary Alice Koeneke
gjkoppel@xxxxxxx
Centreville, VA 20120-2901
