Leader Tom Stephenson
https://photos.app.goo.gl/LHC29wpdVT9stc2EA Sameer's photos
Hi Peter,
It was a very beautiful, and mostly bugless day, yesterday. The East Pond is starting to clear up, although we were restricted by the poison ivy to the very southern end.. It's an early date for migration but we still had good looks at most of the shorebirds on the list.
The West Pond had very large shorebird flocks but the viewing options are basically none... sometime we could think of trying to improve maybe with some bushwhacking...
Sameer may have sent you the list, but just in case, here's what we saw for your site.
Best regards,
Tom
| Double-crested Cormorant |
| Great Blue Heron |
| Great Egret |
| Snowy Egret |
| Yellow-crowned Night-Heron |
| Glossy Ibis |
| Canada Goose |
| Mute Swan |
| American Black Duck |
| Mallard |
| Ruddy Duck |
| Osprey |
| Peregrine Falcon |
| Semipalmated Plover |
| Killdeer |
| Greater Yellowlegs |
| Lesser Yellowlegs |
| Willet |
| Semipalmated Sandpiper |
| Least Sandpiper |
| White-rumped Sandpiper |
| Stilt Sandpiper |
| Short-billed Dowitcher |
| Laughing Gull |
| Herring Gull |
| Forster's Tern |
| Black Skimmer |
| Chimney Swift |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird |
| Downy Woodpecker |
| Northern Flicker |
| Willow Flycatcher |
| Eastern Kingbird |
| Common Raven |
| Purple Martin |
| Tree Swallow |
| Bank Swallow |
| Barn Swallow |
| Carolina Wren |
| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher |
| American Robin |
| Gray Catbird |
| Northern Mockingbird |
| European Starling |
| Cedar Waxwing |
| Yellow Warbler |
| American Redstart |
| Common Yellowthroat |
| Song Sparrow |
| Northern Cardinal |
| Red-winged Blackbird |
| Boat-tailed Grackle |
| Baltimore Oriole |
| House Finch |
| American Goldfinch |
"Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill."
Harper Lee,author To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee,author To Kill a Mockingbird
