While watching for storm birds during a May low pressure event, I saw approximately ten flying down the lake towards me. It was dark and rainy, but I managed a few photos as the passed. I never saw them again as they apparently continued on to another location.

I have been fortunate to be allowed into the landfill for a number of years now. It always has gulls in winter. Starting in 2020, Lesser Black-backed Gulls started showing sporadically from January to March.

A late May low pressure system caused flooding and brought the shorebirds. I was out checking spots and found a single bird. It was seen by several other birders that day and the next. A second bird was seen and photographed at a flooded golf course on Mebane Bridge Road the next day.

I had been trying this spot for wetland birds for some time, using playback of various species. This time I got a response. Recordings were made, but the bird wasn't seen. I returned the next day and obtained a photo.

Three females seen resting near the dam. I could see they were larger than the nearby scaup, eliminating Ruddy Duck. I watched for a while until one finally lifted its head for confirmation. Dark ducks with tail up, black caps and paler cheeks.

Bird appeared during a big freeze. Seen clearly on a small pond near Madison. eBird checklist:. https://ebird.org/checklist/S27514869 Photo attached is from another sighting in the county due to ease of finding image. Photo: (attached)

This was my first observation in Rockingham County. They are annual and fairly common in the right habitat. I have no proof of breeding higher than multiple birds present from March through September. Many recordings and a few photos (from other observations).

This is my first Rockingham County observation of this species. They are annual at several locations. I have no proof of breeding higher than multiple birds at a location during breeding season. I have many recording and one photo (from another observation).

Filling hummingbird feeders and noticed him. I was without my phone so unable to get a photo, but will continue to watch for him and try to capture a photo soon

Medium sized tern like bird. Black on top including top of head, back of neck, top of wings and back and white on the underside, with orange and black bill with lower mandible being longer than top.

Large mostly white pelicans with black wingtips and along the back side of wings with orange bill. Came in from the east in loose V formations then proceeded to slowly kettle west over downtown/river area and then reformed V formations and continued west along the river.

We had a pair of egrets hang out with us July and August last year, tonight one showed back up. (Roosting in same tree.) Never saw one this early before.

Ebird checklist S95600719 was one of 5 records this year alone for this bird which has been seen dozens of times in the county, and reported on ebird, some of which have pictures of adult males attached.

Cited in AFN 15-1. There are also several modern ebird records from the county where it apparently winters, one with a picture which is likely ID quality.

Ebird checklist S37558797 with pictures of bobolinks at breeding colony site--several more colonies in the area, known from multiple ebird reports and also Breeding Bird Survey Routes.

cited in AFN 19-1. Also several modern ebird records, one by me on 9/28/2020, and another photographed at the dam at Kerr Scott reservoir less than 2 weeks later.