Hi everyone, Peter Post's plover continued apparently all day, bathing at an ephemeral pool just south and west of the main Nickerson lot. 2 Royal Terns were working just offshore and a Lesser Black-backed Gull was on the beachfront. As I was driving out of the lot I had a naked-eye look at a medium-sized, mostly dark shorebird which looked like a (likely the) golden-plover, flying strongly east towards Pt Lookout and Jones Inlet. At Camp Anchor, a couple of beaches west of Nickerson (with the "mushroom" pavillions), a large congregation of shorebirds feeding in the surf included 130 American Oystercatchers, 160 Red Knot, and several billion Sanderlings. The most interesting experience was a sudden vortex of Laughing Gulls that formed over the Nickerson ballfields around 6:45pm. Roughly 300 gulls and some terns were feeding on a fairly dense emergence of small, termite-like winged insects. And over the dunes at anchor around 100 Common Terns and a few Laughing Gulls were performing a similar stunt. Larids flycatching is very entertaining to watch. Best,Brendan Fogarty --
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