Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel (CBBT) Field Trip February 22–23, 2014
Species observed during this trip were:
Snow Goose Ross's Goose Brant Canada Goose Tundra Swan Wood Duck Gadwall American Wigeon Eurasian Wigeon American Black Duck Mallard Northern Shoveler Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal Redhead Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Common Eider Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Black Scoter Long-tailed Duck Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Ruddy Duck Red-throated Loon Common Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe |
Northern Gannet Double-crested Cormorant Great Cormorant Brown Pelican Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Northern Harrier Cooper's Hawk Bald Eagle Red-shouldered Hawk American Oystercatcher Black-bellied Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Willet Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Dunlin Purple Sandpiper American Woodcock Razorbill Bonaparte's Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Great Black-backed Gull Forster's Tern Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) |
Mourning Dove Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Peregrine Falcon American Crow Fish Crow Carolina Chickadee Brown-headed Nuthatch Brown Creeper Carolina Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet Eastern Bluebird American Robin Gray Catbird Brown Thrasher Northern Mockingbird European Starling Yellow-rumped Warbler Eastern Towhee Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle Boat-tailed Grackle House Finch House Sparrow |
Here are some photos that were taken by Phil Fowler on this trip:
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Surf Scoter pair
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Black Scoter
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Harbor(?) Seal
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Surf Scoter
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flying Surf Scoter
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Long-tailed Duck
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Tundra Swan eating water plant at Chincoteague
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The CBBT Gang (less Phil) at Chincoteague
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Delmarva Squirrel at Chincoteaque
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Great Blue Heron at Chincoteaque