I went over to Hunting Creek around 12:30 and found the Marbled Godwit straight
out from the bridge near the large gull flock. It was in full view and not too
hard to find.
Larry Meade
Merrifield, VA
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From: Marc Ribaudo <moribaudo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: VA-BIRD <va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sun, Aug 9, 2015 3:19 pm
Subject: [Va-bird] Hunting Creek bridge shorebirds
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
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