From: Tim Mccarthy via Ontbirds
Not too exciting today if Whimbrels were all you were looking for, there were
only 2 birds that kept disappearing somewhere and coming back. They were first
seen (by Wayne Renaud) just before 8 am and last i know of, around 3 pm.
They were behaving as lone birds or small flocks often do, circling and calling
as if to find their flock. We hope they got rested up somewhere. There was no
report from Virginia today on last night's flight from the marshes so I guess
it was a quiet day for Whimbrels but a beautiful day for Park visitors..
Yesterday afternoon around 4pm after the rain Jerry Dewchyshyn saw a flock of 6
Whimbrels which suggests that somebody ought to stay out there all afternoon
every day..
There was a group of pretty good birders on hand this morning and together we
saw:
16 Common Loons, 7 Red Throated Loons all in breeding plumage, 9 Brant, 14
Whitewinged Scoters (seen by some guy named Ak. Must stand for something like
Andrew Keaveney), hundreds of Red Breasted Mergansers, 4 Common Mergansers, 60+
Long Tailed Ducks, 2 Little Gulls, 10 Bonaparte's Gulls, 2 Black Terns,1
American Pipit (which actually said "pipit"), 7 Short Billed Dowitchers, 3
Semipalmated Plovers, 1 Ruddy Turnstone, 1 Black Bellied Plover, 33 Dunlin, 3
Spotted Sandpipers, 1 Semipalmated Sandpiper , 2 Kildeer, 2 Bobolinks and 2
Meadowlarks. We believe the meadowlarks are nesting. The Least Bittern was very
much a showbird today, strutting his stuff right next to the parking lot. I
didn't see any Cliff swallows as the building they like to nest on appears to
be under construction.
So as you can imagine we're all tuckered out so we'll see you at 5:30 tomorrow
morning.
GoodBirds,
Tim
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