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Location **Back Bay NWR
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Owner Scott Baron

Effort

Protocol:  Historical
  • Observers:  1
  • Distance:  3.25 mi

Checklist Comments

Part of day three of four day trip to SE Va.

I birded the Visitor Center area including the beach and the Dune Trail. I walked the East Dike Trail into False Cape State Park. I returned from the park into the refuge late in the day. My notes, which I took years ago, do not say how long I spent in each location. I drove out of the refuge at 4:15pm.

Weather - Partly cloudy (?), 75 at 7:45. (Sunny, 91F at 2:30 at False Cape SP.

Mammals - E. Gray Squirrel, 1. Wild pony, 4.

Herps - So. Leopard Frog, yes. turtle sp., yes. Yel.-bellied Turtle, 2. Red-bellied Turtle, 1.

Butterflies - E. Tiger Swallowtail, 1. Palamedes Swallowtail, 2. dark sw. sp., 4. Clouded Sulphur, 2. Orange Sulphur, 2. Cloudless Sulphur, 48. Clouded/Cloudless, 1. Red-banded Hairstreak, 2. Hackberry Emperor, 1. Com. Buckeye, 4. Red Admiral, 1. Viceroy, 2. Monarch, 2. Com. Wood Nymph, 23. Least Skipper, 2. Little Glassywing (?), 1. Clouded Skipper, 1. skipper sp., 8 (one was very large).

Odes - orange damselfly sp., 1 (Orange Bluet? Clear wings, rusty orange sides w/ black top. Rusty orange top half of legs, the bottom half was black. Rusty orange in back of eye). blue damselfly. damselfly sp. (blue females?, one was off white and black). Great Blue Skimmer, Blue Dasher, E. Pondhawk, Golden-winged or Needham's Skimmer, Black Saddlebags, Carolina Saddlebags, Com. Whitetail, Com. Green Darner, Halloween Pennant. dragonfly sp. (Clear wings except yellow leading edge. Stigma reddish. Thorax with light stripe above, lower had brown stripes, then dull green-gray sides. It didn't have wide hindwings as in Wandering Glider. Yellow sides of abdomen, black stripe on top. Whitish or yellowish face, rich brown eyes, green lower. Med. size? About 2 inches). dragonfly sp. (clear wings, red stigma, orangey leading edge of wings, red w/ reddish brown sides of thorax, dark stripe up the abdomen, brick-red eyes, light greenish face.)

Totals

48
Species Observed
+5 other taxa

Observations

  1. Blue-winged Teal

    Number observed:  13

  2. Mourning Dove

    Number observed:  1

  3. Yellow-billed Cuckoo

    Number observed:  2

  4. Chimney Swift

    Number observed:  7

  5. Willet

    Number observed:  8

  6. Sanderling

    Number observed:  21

  7. Laughing Gull

    Number observed:  7

  8. Ring-billed Gull

    Number observed:  52

  9. American Herring Gull

    Number observed:  1

  10. Great Black-backed Gull

    Number observed:  4

  11. Lesser Black-backed Gull

    Number observed:  4

  12. gull sp.

    Number observed:  X

  13. Caspian Tern

    Number observed:  1

  14. Forster's Tern

    Number observed:  2

  15. tern sp.

    Number observed:  49

    Details

    2 possible Common, 2 Caspian/Royal, 45 other

  16. Pied-billed Grebe

    Number observed:  2

  17. Double-crested Cormorant

    Number observed:  1

  18. Tricolored Heron

    Number observed:  1

  19. Snowy Egret

    Number observed:  2

  20. Green Heron

    Number observed:  1

  21. Western Cattle-Egret

    Number observed:  80

  22. Great Egret

    Number observed:  12

  23. Great Blue Heron (Great Blue)

    Number observed:  2

  24. heron sp.

    Number observed:  3

    Details

    not seen well

  25. white egret sp.

    Number observed:  1

  26. Brown Pelican

    Number observed:  32

  27. Osprey

    Number observed:  1

  28. Red-shouldered Hawk

    Number observed:  1

  29. Belted Kingfisher

    Number observed:  2

  30. Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)

    Number observed:  1

  31. Eastern Kingbird

    Number observed:  3

  32. American Crow

    Number observed:  4

  33. crow sp.

    Number observed:  4

  34. Carolina Chickadee

    Number observed:  5

  35. Barn Swallow

    Number observed:  6

  36. Carolina Wren

    Number observed:  7

  37. European Starling

    Number observed:  61

  38. Gray Catbird

    Number observed:  3

  39. Brown Thrasher

    Number observed:  2

  40. Northern Mockingbird

    Number observed:  7

  41. American Robin

    Number observed:  5

  42. House Finch

    Number observed:  2

  43. American Goldfinch

    Number observed:  1

  44. Field Sparrow

    Number observed:  3

  45. Eastern Towhee

    Number observed:  2

  46. Eastern Meadowlark

    Number observed:  2

  47. Red-winged Blackbird

    Number observed:  39

  48. Boat-tailed Grackle

    Number observed:  7

  49. American Redstart

    Number observed:  1

    Age & Sex:

    Age Juvenile Immature Adult Age Unknown
    Male 1
    Female
    Sex Unknown

  50. Yellow Warbler

    Number observed:  1

  51. Pine Warbler

    Number observed:  1

  52. Northern Cardinal

    Number observed:  7

  53. Blue Grosbeak

    Number observed:  2

    Age & Sex:

    Age Juvenile Immature Adult Age Unknown
    Male 2
    Female
    Sex Unknown