Family trip to Cape Cod, near Hyannis over the weekend.  got in some
birding.  I walk on a barrier beach near where we stay.

 

Highlights: 

1 Am. Oystercatcher

6 Willets

20 Semi-palm. Sandpipers

6 Least Terns

4 adult Piping Plovers.  Regularly do their "broken wing" display/
distraction. Sweet birds !  Monitored by MA Audubon.

2 Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrows.

 

Pine and Blackburnian Warblers singing in the yard, a first.

 

Lots of Osprey.

 

Some left over Co. Eiders and some distant Scoters, maybe black.

 

B

 

So fun to see shorebirds !!

 

 

 

 

Bill Shepard        

 

Project Coordinator

CT River Birding Trail

2360 Academy Road

Thetford Center, VT  05075

 

Home: 802 785-2855

 


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