Over all there were many many laughing gulls and no vultures. Usually where evere I go in VA there are vultures gliding around but there weren't any in NC at the Duke Marine Lab. Also little dicky birds like mocking birds, cardinals, wrens and others weren't around at all or not as much through out the day as they would be in Newport News but in the early morning they were all out flying and singing.
We were out on the boat @ doing some tredging and trawling and as one of our trawling loads were coming up, laughing gull picked up a small fish. As I watched it swallowed the fish whole while it was flying behind the boat.One bird that I wasn't expecting to see that Hillary pointed put was an Ibis; we saw one or two Ibises on a marshy, duney island. They were white shorebirds with a long curved down bill. We also saw hunting sandpipers.
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