Ospreyers, Went to Chincoteague NWR on Sat. Oct 3, at 7:00am, I park my truck south of Lot #3 on oceanside and walk about 1-2 miles on offroad vehicle path and about 20-25 minutes later, an male M. Frigatebird appear offshore circled around for about 6 minutes and headed toward south. Looks like this bird is now going back to Florida. I had a good look on tiny red spot on its throat. An hour later, around 8:22am an adult White Pelican seen flying with 3 Brown Pelican offshore and still hanging around offshore and sometimes flying back and forth about 1/2 mile offshore. Someone also reports this same bird 2-3 days ago on Swan Cove. Birds seen in refuge area: M. Frigatebird - 1 male offshore Am. White Pelican - 1 offshore Brown Pelican - 3 (1 ad. & 2 imm.) offshore Double-crested Cormorant - 77 Great Blue Heron - 11 Great Egret - 47 Snowy Egret - 58 Little Blue Heron - 8 near Rt. 175 bridge Tricolored Heron - 5 near Rt. 175 bridge Mute Swan - 3 Swan Cove Canada Goose - 96 Mallard - 13 Swan Cove Am. Black Duck - 44 (42 at Swan Cove) N. Shoveler - 2 Swan Cove Gadwall - 4 Swan Cove Turkey Vulture - 1 Osprey - 2 Bald Eagle - 1 ad. near entrance to Chincot. Refuge N. Harrier - 2 Merlin - 2 migrate over beach Peregrine Falcon - 1 migrate over beach Black-bellied Plover - 1 Swan Cove Semipalmated Plover - 14 Swan Cove Am. Oystercatcher - 47 at stakes area off Rt. 175 bridge, low tide 10am Am. Avocet - 9 Swan Cove Greater Yellowleg - 11 9 at Swan Cove and 2 at Rt. 175 bridge Lesser Yellowleg - 1 Swan Cove Solitary Sandpiper - 1 Swan Cove Ruddy Turnstone - 3 Swan Cove Semipalmated Sandpiper - 62 50 at Swan Cove and 12 at Tom's Cove Western Sandpiper - 18 Swan Cove Least Sandpiper - 44 33 at Swan Cove and 11 at Rt. 175 bridge White-rumped Sandpiper - 2 Swan Cove Baird's Sandpiper - 1 Swan Cove Dunlin - 8 Swan Cove Curlew Sandpiper - 1 adult at Swan Cove Short-billed Dowitcher - 11 Swan Cove Laughing Gull - 227 Ring-billed Gull - 89 Herring Gull - 178 Great Black-backed Gull - 65 Caspian Tern - 4 (3 ad. & 1 imm.) Swan Cove Royal Tern - 9 (4 ad. & 5 imm.) Swan Cove Common Tern - 7 Forster's Tern - 62 Mourning Dove - 10 Belted Kingfisher - 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1 Woodland Trail area Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1 Woodland Trail area N. Flicker - 3 Tree Swallow - 52 Bank Swallow - 1 flyby south, south of Lot #3 Barn Swallow - 5 Blue Jay - 4 Am. Crow - 6 Fish Crow - 11 Golden-crowned Kinlet - 2 Woodland Trail area Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2 near Woodland Trail Am. Robin - 85 N. Mockingbird - 3 European Starling - 259 Tennessee Warbler - 1 female near Woodland Trail Yellow-rumped Warbler - 7 Woodland Trail area Pine Warbler - 4 in pine trees near herd of 40+ Wild Ponies Palm Warbler - 1 east side of Woodland Trail near herd of Ponies Black-and-white Warbler - 2 Woodland Trail area Am. Redstart - 1 Woodland Trail area near pond N. Cardinal - 2 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 2 a pair, Woodland Trail area Seaside Sparrow - 6 Song Sparrow - 3 Swamp Sparrow - 7 White-throated Sparrow - 2 Red-winged Blackbird - 50 Boat-tailed Grackle - 69 Common Grackle - 46 Kevin Graff Baltimore, MD ggraff@erols.com