Sue and I has a productive few hours shorebirding at HSP this morning, recording twelve species of shorebirds at the flooded Field 7 parking lot. Prior to birding Field 7, we observed a Wilson’s Snipe feeding in the puddles in the Field 6 picnic area with a large contingent of waterfowl that consisted of mostly Mallards, but also a pair of Gadwall and a lone female Pintail. At Field 7, we quickly picked up two American Golden Plovers among the numerous juvenile Black-bellied Plovers. The most numerous shorebird was Dunlin, but contained in the scattered groups of this species was a continuing Long-billed Dowitcher, Pectoral Sandpiper (1), White-rumped Sandpiper (3), and a single Semipalmated Sandpiper. Rounding out the shorebirds was Greater Yellowlegs (3), Sanderling, Killdeer, and Semipalmated Plover (3).
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