Greetings,
Results from the OFO Shorebird Trip to Rock Point and Surroundings, 0800
to 1300 hours August 18, 2013.
Over 50 individuals with 25 vehicles attended today's OFO shorebird
trip, a record number of participants. 15 species of shorebirds were
seen. Notable were a single Baird's Sandpiper at Rock Point along with
number of very tame Least and Semipalmated Sandpipers which allowed us
to approach to within a few meters. A single Stilt Sandpiper and a
single White-rumped Sandpiper at the Mosaic Esterhazy Lagoons and two
Golden Plovers at the Sod Farms. As we were leaving the Mosaic Lagoons a
pair of Sandhill Cranes flew over followed a few minutes later by a Bald
Eagle that flushed about 20 Caspian Terns from their resting area. Eight
Common Egrets were seen at Mosaic along with about the same number of
Great Blue Herons and a single Tundra Swan.
The shorebird numbers were approximately as follows:
Black-bellied Plover 30
American Golden Plover 2
Semipalmated Plover 8
Killdeer 22
Spotted Sandpiper 4
Greater Yellowlegs 8
Lesser Yellowlegs 25
Sanderling 3
Semipalmated Sandpiper 60
Least Sandpiper 20
White-rumped Sandpiper 1
Baird's Sandpiper 1
Pectoral Sandpiper 2
Stilt Sandpiper 1
Short-billed Dowitcher 10
We wish to thank George Madsen of Mosaic for letting us into the Mosaic
Lagoons and Kevin McLaughlin and Jim Heslop for assisting with the trip.
John Black
Dan Salisbury
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