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
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