Date:         Thu, 26 Oct 2000 01:59:21 GMT
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From:         Adam Wieczorek <golfadam@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Birds and ponies in Chincoteague
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    Chincoteague may be famous for all of it's wonderful ponies, but for all
the die-hard birders out there it's a gold mine. Me ang a group of others
who are "bird crazy" were on a trip down there for one Saturday, on the 21st
of October. As soon as we got there we were hit hard with tons of
yellow-rumped warblers. In a pond we saw tri-colored herons, egrets, lesser
yellow-legs, a little blue heron and some canadian geese. The birding
continued as we found some caspian terns and a cooper's hawk. Next, we saw
about 100 black skimmers sitting next to some sanderlings and a few
semipalmated sandpipers. Would it end there? No. we entered a woodland area
and saw the amazing brown-headed nuthatch, and osprey, a bald eagle and
several woodpeckers. Chincoteague is worth the trip!

Other birds seen:
-Brown pelican
-Palm warbler
-Double crested cormrants
-tons of gulls!!!
-Hairy woodpecker

there were a few others, but the total number our group saw in about 6 hours
was 44 species.

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