Ok, so I had to go to Cape Cod for family 3 day holiday. I have birded the same barrier beach (mid Cape, south side) w/ adjacent salt marsh for a good many years. My solace from the maddening hoards. Weather was a bit grim for some of our time, but hay a bad day birding is a good day. Highlights: 15 Co Loons, most were juveniles, all on a pod. (not ipod) 4 adult Piping Plovers (2 small cute ! chicks scooting around, with tiny legs moving 100mph) nested here for 20+ years. monitored by the Audubon. 2 Am Oystercatchers (just gorgeous !) saw 2 separate times 3 Black-bellied Plovers, one close to breeding plumage 30 Least Terns..subsequent visits = 16. May nest.would be a first for the site. 8 Willets.rather vocal birds. many Osprey 2 Laughing Gulls (lots of the others) 1 Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow. They are rather elusive and hug the marsh/beach line. Various and sundry others. BS Bill Shepard Project Coordinator CT River Birding Trail 2360 Academy Road Thetford Center, VT 05075 Home: 802 785-2855