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"Dennis" Nags Head 9/4 - 9/6 (NC) (Fwd)



I don't think this appeared on Carolinabirds...

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Subject:        	"Dennis" Nags Head 9/4 - 9/6 (NC)

From: Les Willis
Subject: "Dennis" Nags Head 9/4 - 9/6 (NC)
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 11:53:11 -0400

My family & I went to Nags Head [NC] for the Labor Day Weekend.
This is a summary of storm-related birds seen:

Saturday, 9/4/99, 8-10AM
Washington-Baum Bridge (Between Outer Banks & Manteo) -
>From base of the east end of the bridge - 3 Wilson's Storm-Petrels

Bridge from Manteo to mainland -
>From east end of the bridge - 1 Wilson's Storm-Petrel

Nags Head - MP 11 - from shore - 1 Cory's Shearwater

Sunday, 9/5/99, 7-9AM
Washington-Baum Bridge (Between Outer Banks & Manteo) -
>From base of the east end of the bridge - 5 Wilson's Storm-Petrels

Nags Head - MP 11 - 1 Cory's Shearwater washed up on the beach

Monday, 9/6/99, 7-9AM
Nags Head - MP 11 - no pelagics but a steady stream of terns moving south
incl:
Royal, Caspian, Least, Gull-billed, Black, Common, & Sandwich

Did not check for shorebirds.  Should have!

Les Willis
Suffolk, VA

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