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Ring-necked Ducks, Roanoke Rapids, NC/CLARK'S GREBE, Virginia Beach, VA



My parents and I saw about 3500 Ring-necks in one pond and 1 Lesser   
Scaup (female) in another of the Garysburg goose ponds (Cornwallis    
Road north off US 258, northeast of Roanoke Rapids, NC).              
                                                                      
Off Cape Henry (Virginia) at 4:30pm, just beyond breakers, off 85th   
Street, in Virginia Beach a Clark's Grebe was diving and slowly moving
north.  Unfortunately, Fort Story, to the north, is inaccessible as a 
precaution against terrorists.  Very obvious, very white "swan grebe".
Also, more than 100 each of N. Gannets and C. Loons flying north in   
twenty minutes off the beach.  There was also a nice crow roost at the
intersection of the Virginia Beach Expressway and I-64.  Even though  
these birds were seen in VA, I thought that they would be of interest.
 Approximately 80 Bonaparte's Gulls also flew north, but none of the  
target gull species (Little and Black-headed) were seen.              
                                                                      
Elisa Enders                                                          
eenders@unity.ncsu.edu                                                
student, North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC)