Nine participants counted birds for the Williamsburg Audubon Spring Bird Count on Sunday, May 15, in the Rosewell Sector of Gloucester. The count started at 8 a.m. in the fog at Rosewell Plantation and continued to the Middle Peninsula State Park, Aberdeen Creek Road and Clay Bank Wharf areas, ending at 2:30. Seventy-one different species of birds were seen with a total of 589 birds counted. The birders are members of the Middle Peninsula Bird Club and the Middle Peninsula Master Naturalist Chapter. Participants included, from left, David Yeager, Tom Crockett, Edith Bradbury, Gee Brownley, Harry Colestock, Sherry Rollins, Mary Dennis and sector leader Bill Blair.
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