Managed to latch on to a bunch of birders headed to South Beach off Chatham,
yesterday. Next to Monomoy NWF.  Certainly an IBA.

 

This is where one goes for shorebirds ! and a few others.

 

Highlights: (many) gorgeous weather.

 

Co Loons

1 Cory's Shearwater, 2 Greater Sh.

2 No Gannets

Parasitic Jaegers 10

Snowy Egrets..6

BW teal 1 male

Osprey, 4 Harriers, 2 imm Peregrines (spooked a lot of birds)

Black-bellied Plovers    2100 were counted.

Semi-palm Plovers (500), 1 Piping.

Am Oystercatchers..6 several w/ legs bands. 

Sb Dowitchers (40),   Whimbrels 8, a few Gr and Lesser Yellowlegs

Willets 20, Ruddy Turnstones.50, Red Knots 200 (mixed plumages)

Sanderlings 100, Semi-p Sandpipers 200, Least a few, 2 White-rumps.

Dunlin 4

Regular gulls.

Terns: 1000+ common, Roseate 20, Black 6, Least 4

A flush of Tree swallows flew over me while in the dunes..prob 500.

Horned Larks 6, salt-marsh sharp-tailed Sparrow 2

 

Oh, yeah.several of us saw our first Bar-Tailed Godwit. Good looks, among
several  Hudsonian's. This was a European specie/race. Adult non-breeding.

                                Pinkish at base of bill.  The peregrines
flushed them, so we got to see it/them in flight.

 

 

 

 

Bill Shepard        

 

Project Coordinator

CT River Birding Trail

2360 Academy Road

Thetford Center, VT  05075

 

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