[birdky] Mud Flats at BR 8/29

Habitat is looking good and the birds are stopping for  a visit.  I saw a 
funny thing yesterday while scoping the mud  flats.  A DC Cormorant was on 
shore 
walking around with the geese.  It  was a behavior I've not seen before.  It 
was not very graceful  and had more of a waddle than a walk.  
The number of birds had increased considerably this morning.  Melissa  and I 
paddled (or mud vaulted) to three areas of the flats.  Species seen  were:
 
Wood Duck

Blue-winged teal
DC Cormorant
Great Egret
Bald Eagle - 1
Semipalmated Plover - 4
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs - 17
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper - 2
Spotted Sandpiper - 10
Semipalmated Sandpiper - numbers increased to over 20
Western Sandpiper - at least 28
Least Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper - they wouldn't stay still for a count
Stilt Sandpiper - 8 juvenile
Short-billed Dowitcher - 1 juvenile
Caspian Tern
White-eyed vireo - several still calling
 
Hap & Melissa
Murray, KY
 



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