Leader Tom Stephenson
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From: Tom Stephenson <12toms@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Aug 16, 2021, 10:18 AM
Subject: Re: JBWR AUG 15TH instructions
To: Peter Dorosh <prosbird@gmail.com>
From: Tom Stephenson <12toms@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Aug 16, 2021, 10:18 AM
Subject: Re: JBWR AUG 15TH instructions
To: Peter Dorosh <prosbird@gmail.com>
Hi Peter, et al.
Really fun trip yesterday. Nice breeze, balmy temps compared to the days before, and lots of birds.
I remember 61 species (list below, please let us know what I missed)
Highlights included Black-bellied Whistling-Duck, many Wilson's Phalaropes including one juv bird, 2 Long-billed Dowitchers, (remarkable!), Black Tern, lots of Stilt and White-rumped Sandpipers; and two flocks of Blue-winged Teal, .
John Dean gets the spotters award for the South end, finding lots of good birds.
Adelia gets the triple crown award for first sightings of the Black Tern, Long-billed Dow and Pectoral Sp.
Finally, we got back a little late, as we decided we'd better free Bob after he got severely stuck when we were leaving the North end. We thought it wouldn't look good for the BBC to leave someone behind. And the vultures were starting to circle.
I'll follow up with some pictures later today (probably...) and, as I mentioned, there's a workup of how to tell White-rumped Sandpipers from Semis on The Warbler Guide FB page. (You'll have to do some scrolling to find it as I did it a couple of years ago.)
See everyone again once the Fall Migration walks start up.
Best regards,
Tom
| Double-crested Cormorant |
| Great Blue Heron |
| Great Egret |
| Snowy Egret |
| Little Blue Heron |
| Black-crowned Night-Heron |
| Glossy Ibis |
| Black-bellied Whistling-Duck |
| Canada Goose |
| Mute Swan |
| Gadwall |
| American Black Duck |
| Mallard |
| Blue-winged Teal |
| Northern Shoveler |
| Lesser Scaup |
| Ruddy Duck |
| Osprey |
| Peregrine Falcon |
| Semipalmated Plover |
| Killdeer |
| Greater Yellowlegs |
| Lesser Yellowlegs |
| Spotted Sandpiper |
| Semipalmated Sandpiper |
| Least Sandpiper |
| White-rumped Sandpiper |
| Pectoral Sandpiper |
| Stilt Sandpiper |
| Short-billed Dowitcher |
| Long-billed Dowitcher |
| Wilson's Phalarope |
| Laughing Gull |
| Ring-billed Gull |
| Herring Gull |
| Great Black-backed Gull |
| Gull-billed Tern |
| Forster's Tern |
| Black Tern |
| Rock Dove |
| Downy Woodpecker |
| American Crow |
| Fish Crow |
| Purple Martin |
| Tree Swallow |
| Bank Swallow |
| Barn Swallow |
| Carolina Wren |
| Gray Catbird |
| European Starling |
| Cedar Waxwing |
| Yellow Warbler |
| Common Yellowthroat |
| Eastern Towhee |
| Song Sparrow |
| Northern Cardinal |
| Red-winged Blackbird |
| Common Grackle |
| Boat-tailed Grackle |
| American Goldfinch |
| House Sparrow |
