All,
Sorry for the delay in getting you the picture. My photo site is having
issues and I haven't been able to load pics since last week. Les Brooks
graciously agreed to load this picture so I could get it to you of the
white faced ibis spotted in Chincoteague last Monday.
http://www.fototime.com/8C9B03806761582/orig.jpg
The white faced is in the front with two glossy ibis in the background.
You can definitely see the difference in the bill and leg colors.
Thanks Robert for pointing this out to us and thanks Les for posting the
picture!
Barbara Houston
Robert Ake wrote:
Today I went to Chincoteague NWR to look for the American Avocets which have been reported there for over a week. I arrived a bit early for the opening of the wildlife drive, so I drove the beach road where there were many herons and very few lingering shorebirds. At 3pm I drove onto the wildlife drive and I did find the avocets, six of them, in the interior of the wildlife drive. They were best viewed from the south near where the Black Duck leaves. They carried the peachy hue of breeding birds, although these birds should be somewhere else if that's their objective. I continued on around the wildlife drive and as I emerged from the trees on the north part of the loop, I could see a group of about fifteen dark ibis ahead on the right hand side. I pulled up, got out of the car, and checked out the ibis. The last one I looked at was a breeding plumaged White-faced Ibis. The soft parts around the base of the bill were a bright pink and the white band was continuous around the eye. The legs were also pinkish in color and for what it's worth, the bird seemed a little larger than the Glossy Ibis with which it could be compared. I did get some photos which I have yet to examine, but Barbara Houston and a car of photographers also snapped some photos which I'm certain will be far better than mine. This sighting is during the period when White-faced Ibis have shown up previously with several of those sightings at Chincoteague NWR.
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