Greetings All From Craney Island, Portsmouth
Below is the preliminary list of species observed during day two of the VSO's
Ruth Beck Craney Island field trips. Twenty-three participants found today's
birds at this Army Corps of Engineers dredge spoil disposal site just the
breath of fresh air needed to dissipate heavy smoke from the Dismal Swamp fires.
Highlights included are-you-kidding-me numbers of Black-necked Stilts and
American Avocets, 8 Marbled Godwits, several close Stilt Sandpipers, 2 Wilson's
Phalaropes, a shabby looking Glaucous Gull, nice ballets of Black Terns, and
more fun than you could possibly cover with any amount of Hampton Roads muck!!!
Best Birds,
Bill Williams
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Subject: eBird Report - Craney Island Disposal Area, Aug 21, 2011
Craney Island Disposal Area, Portsmouth, US-VA
Aug 21, 2011 7:10 AM - 1:30 PM
Protocol: Traveling
18.2 mile(s)
Comments: VSO Field Trip. Smoke from the Dismal Swamp fires covered the
area during the morning. Incoming tide. Breezy, partly cloudy, and warm by
late morning.
61 species (+2 other taxa)
American Black Duck 7
Mallard 131
Blue-winged Teal 11
Northern Shoveler 4
Double-crested Cormorant 18
Brown Pelican 11
Great Blue Heron 8
Great Egret 38
Snowy Egret 22
Green Heron 1
Osprey 5
Cooper's Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 2
Semipalmated Plover 21
Killdeer 13
Black-necked Stilt 35
American Avocet 48
Spotted Sandpiper 8
Greater Yellowlegs 16
Willet 5 all Western
Lesser Yellowlegs 216
Marbled Godwit 8
Ruddy Turnstone 1
Sanderling 4
Semipalmated Sandpiper 3282
Western Sandpiper 54
White-rumped Sandpiper 2
Stilt Sandpiper 27
peep sp. 1250
Short-billed Dowitcher 9
Wilson's Phalarope 2
Laughing Gull 137
Ring-billed Gull 29
Herring Gull 19
Glaucous Gull 1 apparent second cycle individual in heavy wing and head
molt
Great Black-backed Gull 16
gull sp. 1
Least Tern 651
Caspian Tern 4
Black Tern 41
Forster's Tern 32
Royal Tern 1
Rock Pigeon 1
Mourning Dove 37
Blue Jay 2
American Crow 3
Fish Crow 2
Horned Lark 8
Purple Martin 14
Barn Swallow 11
Carolina Wren 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1
Gray Catbird 1
Northern Mockingbird 4
European Starling 242
Eastern Towhee 2
Song Sparrow 2
Blue Grosbeak 3
Red-winged Blackbird 33
Eastern Meadowlark 1
Brown-headed Cowbird 27
House Finch 3
American Goldfinch 3
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2 (http://ebird.org)
