Shorebird habitat continues to improve as water levels drop on the
main marsh. The following shorebirds were found at Cardinal Marsh on
May 15: 3 semipalmated plovers, 10 killdeer, 10 lesser yellowlegs, 12
solitary sandpipers, 8 least sandpipers, 1 pectoral sandpiper, 1 stilt
sandpiper and 7 short-billed dowitchers. In addition, there were 12
sandhill cranes. 9 were singles in a scattered flock and there was a
parental pair with a quail-sized colt. A lone trumpeter swan kept
company with a hundred or so Canada geese. Several shovelers and a
pintail were present. Upland birds of note included yellow-headed
blackbirds and an orchard oriole as a wood thrush serenaded the marsh.
Larry Reis
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