Bombay Hook NWR, DE: Ross' Goose, Lincoln's Sparrow, etc.

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Some "highlights" (not a complete list) from Sunday....

Bombay Hook NWR, and Delaware Bay: *
(Sunday,  11/22/98)

LINCOLN's SPARROW     (behind refuge office)

ROSS' GOOSE                    (Shearness Pool)

A. Bittern (swimming)        (Finis Pool)

A. Snipe                                (Bear Swamp Pool)

A. Pipits  (60+)                     (intersection at road to Finis Pool)

Snow Geese                        (75,000 reported from aerial surveys)

Avocets  (300+)               (seen looking North from Pickering Beach)

White-crowned Sparrows  (behind refuge office)

Dunlin (hundreds) 

Grt. Yellowlegs, Least Sandpiper, Sanderlings

ducks: Oldsquaw, Green-winged Teal, Pintails, Black, Mallard,
             Shovelers....

Bald Eagles (2), N. Harriers, Cooper's, Red-tailed, Red-shouldered

Total species = 70 +

* Participants from Augusta Bird Club, Monticello Bird Club, and
Richmond Audubon Society.

                                Larry & Sherrie

Larry Lynch
Chesterfield Co, VA
birder6@juno.com

Sherrie Siers
Richmond, VA

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