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Tracking the birds

Posted On November 26, 2024
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PHOTO BY SUSAN CROCKETT Members of the Middle Peninsula Bird Club surveyed Catlett Islands on Tuesday, Nov. 12, partnering with staff from the Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Virginia. The survey relates to conservation of certain species including waterfowl, shorebirds, and marsh birds. The group identified 27 species of birds and 285 individual birds, including 17 Great Blue Herons and two species of shorebirds (Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers). The group of birders expect to see more waterfowl species during the winter survey in February. Among those taking part were, from left, Erin Reilly of VIMS, Harry Colestock, Abrianna Sadler of VIMS, Gee Brownley, Dave Yeager and, not pictured, Tom and Susan Crockett.

PHOTO BY RANDY SWEET
Seventeen volunteers from the Middle Peninsula Master Naturalist Chapter and the Middle Peninsula Bird Club counted birds and other wildlife at Brent and Becky’s Bulbs on Tuesday, Nov. 5, for the fall survey of the Department of Wildlife Resources Virginia Bird and Wildlife Adopt-a-Trail Program. They counted 35 species and 177 individual birds, along with 10 species of butterflies. The bird species were reported to eBird.org and the butterfly species to iNaturalist.org Participants included, from left, Shanna Ryan, Edith Bradbury, Ed Brown, Tom Crockett, Maryanna Fisher, Susan Crockett, Doug Dwoyer, Jackie Cooper, C.J. Sweet, Bill Corbin, Ross Johnson, Ed Pels, David Yeager, Sherry Rollins; not pictured, Christine Conley and Lucy Allen....

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