[birdky] Avocet, Dunlin and much more

Barry Hart and I started our shorebird survey under cloudy skies and  rolling 
thunder.   We hunkered down during the worst of the storm  and came out to 
find birds had dropped in to offer us the best shorebird count  we have had 
this 
season with 15 species of shorebirds seen.
 
Blood River, crappie hollow:
Canada Goose
Green-winged Teal - 2
Wild Turkey - 6 males
American White Pelicans - 130
DC Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Bald Eagle - 1 Adult
Semipalmated plover - 2
Killdeer
American Avocet - 1
Lesser Yellowlegs - 8
Sanderling - 3
Western Sandpiper - 1
Least Sandpiper - 114+
Baird's Sandpiper - 1
Pectoral Sandpiper - 9
Stilt Sandpiper - 5
Wilson's Snipe - 1
 
Blood River, Wildcat:
Least Sandpiper - 13
Laughing Gull - 1 adult
Caspian Tern - 9
 
Jonathan Creek, Clear Creek:
Lesser yellowlegs - 6
Least Sandpiper - 26
Stilt Sandpiper - 2
Forster's Tern - 72
 
Jonathan Creek, mud flat
Black-bellied plover - 2
American Golden Plover - 4
Semipalmated Plover - 13
Killdeer
Lesser yellowlegs - 4
Western Sandpiper - 10
Least Sandpiper - 174+
White-rumped Sandpiper - 1
Pectoral Sandpiper - 32
Dunlin - 1
Stilt Sandpiper - 5
Forster's Tern - 166
 
Hap Chambers
Murray, KY
 



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