Diet And Travel

 On Sept 19-21, 2022 hubby and I visited Chincoteague Island, the National Wildlife Refuge and National Seashore in Virginia. I love seeing the wild ponies. It is a great place to see migrating birds, shorebirds and waders, geese and ducks. 

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These are images from our first day Sept 19th.

On the top row are the Laughing Gull, Chincoteague wild ponies.Second row: juvenile Little Blue Herons, Snowy Egret with Great Egret, Cattle Egret, adult Little Blue Heron.Bottom row: Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, Bald Eagle, sunset and full moon rising.

The Cattle Egret showing it breeding colors on it's crown and back. 

The Chincoteague ponies, some egrets were seen on the ground and on the backs of the ponies. 

Adult Little Blue Heron with a few first year Little Blue Herons are actually white in color showing a two toned bill.

I am guessing at these 3 birds, 2 were larger in size which I believe are the Greater Yellowlegs and the smaller bird in front is the Lesser Yellowlegs.

The Great Egret is obvious with it's long yellow bill and dark legs and feet. 

 Snowy Egret with the taller Great Egret. 

Ponies, Egrets and on the far right is a Tricolored Heron  flying by.

The end of day 2, sunset at Tom's Cove Chincoteague Island NWR.

I hope you enjoyed this post, my photos and our visit to Chincoteague Island NWR. 

Emma Colley's Random Travels

Our last morning for a Chincoteague sunrise.

A view from the road leading to the beach.  

Lots of White Ibis, Egrets and a Little Blue Heron

Two Northern Flickers on the trail

Some distant Chincoteague ponies with White Ibis

Our last for of the beach on this trip. 

I hope you enjoyed! Thanks for stopping by, enjoy your day!  

 Emma Colley's Random Travels

Sunrise from the Chincoteague Beach

White Ibis and Egrets

Walk on the beach, Chincoteague National Seashore

American Oystercatcher

Gulls, Terns and Cormorants

Large numbers of Egrets and White Ibis

Wild ponies at Chincoteague NWR

Assateague Island Lighthouse

Kites flying at the beach

Sunset at Tom's Cove, Chincoteague NWR

I hope you enjoyed! Thanks for stopping by, enjoy your day!  

 Emma Colley's Random Travels

Chincoteague Island Virginia is one of my favorite places to visit. I love seeing all the birds, the wild horses, the beach and lighthouse. We were there for 2 nights and 3 days. These are images from the first day.

Lots of Gulls, Terns, Cormorants and Sanderlings on the beach. 

A few of the wild Chincoteague ponies.  

The wildlife drive opens at 3 pm each day.  You can drive and stop to check out the wildlife along the drive. 

Lots of Egrets, Herons, Ibis and Cormorants are seen at the Chincoteague National Wildlife refuge. 

Sunset at Tom's Cove, the end to our first day during this trip.  

I hope you enjoyed! Thanks for stopping by, enjoy your day! 

These are some of the pretty scenes from last weekend's visit to Chincoteague and the Assateague Island National Seashore. We only stayed on night and since this was somewhat of a last minute trip, I missed out on our usual Best Western hotel room. I prefer the Best Western it is located right outside the park. This time we chose the Fairfield Inn, a new hotel that opened off the the main street in Chincoteague Island.

 

 

 Several times a year my husband and I spend a weekend at  Chincoteague Island, Va. The biggest attraction here is at the Chincoteague National Wildlife refuge. During our May visit this year we passed a couple of the ponies and two foals walking down the road.

 

The ponies can been seen all around the refuge. I do not know many places where you can sit on a beach in the company of wild ponies. Sometimes we see them walking down the road or off in the fields, they are just so cute. There is a legend that the Chincoteague ponies are descendants from two Arabians that survived a shipwreck and swam ashore back in the 1600's.

Once a year to keep the herd size down , the local volunteer fire dept holds a pony auction. When I was a just a kid my favorite book was Misty of Chincoteague, I think I read it over and over. Besides seeing the horses Chincoteague is one of my favorite places to go birding. One of my photos shows Cattle Egrets sitting on the ponies.

Thanks for the visit, enjoy your day!



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