June 29, 2012 A hot morning in the mid-80s at 0900 when I began my SEANET bird mortality survey on Bird Shoal. SEANET is a network of volunteer surveyors documenting beached or stranded birds along the east and west coastlines under the co-ordintion of Tufts University. Today the only new bird fatality found was a Greater Shearwater--a bird I had never seen. There was some entertainment from the Skimmers and a Common Loon doing some stretching mane

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July 14, 2012 It was already hot at 0900 on Birdshoal. A Common Loon was the only new bird mortality on this SEANET survey but what I believe to be a Wilson's plover and chick were just behind the debris line.