April 2 --big burst in shorebirds on Bird Shoals

April 4 2011 cormorant, gulls, terns, yellowlegs, willets/lots, little blue heron,
tricolored heron, whimbrel, one dunlin, lots of black bellied plovers/lots in fall plumage, godwits/ lots, spotted plover in winter plumage, oystercatchers at entrance and a lot of songs about—one banded, pelican , black bird with blue highlight, ibis and egrets. What a burst in variety.

New Banded Oystercatcher--April 2

At the edge of Taylors Creek on ther sand spit entering the mud flats, there was a new banded oystercatcher new to me.

Feb. 26, 2011 the shorebirds are returning

After a windy and cold respite, the shorebirds are returning to the mudflats. Mostly Dunlin, semipilated plovers, and a few skiddish black-bellied plovers.