NE wind at 15-20mph and intermittent rain made for challenging birding, but as usual the birding was good BECAUSE of the bad weather at this spot. Highlights were a very close flock of 16 Piping Plovers, hundreds of Red Knot that included several flocks that landed close by on the beach, about 20 juvenile Red Knots were seen, and lots of Caspian Terns were flying about. We also had pretty good looks at Seaside Sparrows and Clapper Rails that were pushed out of the flooded marshes. Brown Pelicans were also seen roosting and flying along the back bay.
39 species (+1 other taxa)
Double-crested Cormorant 12
Brown Pelican 8
Great Egret 24
Snowy Egret 14
Tricolored Heron 1
Black-crowned Night-Heron 45
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 3
Osprey 3
Clapper Rail 3
Black-bellied Plover 4
Semipalmated Plover 350
Piping Plover 16
American Oystercatcher 140
Willet 40
Lesser Yellowlegs 3
Marbled Godwit 6
Ruddy Turnstone 16
Red Knot 240
Sanderling 580
Semipalmated Sandpiper 40
Western Sandpiper 6
Least Sandpiper 2
peep sp. 600
Short-billed Dowitcher 4
Laughing Gull X
Ring-billed Gull X
Herring Gull X
Great Black-backed Gull X
Caspian Tern 32
Forster's Tern 28
Royal Tern 6
Black Skimmer 25
Mourning Dove 6
Tree Swallow 80
Barn Swallow 4
American Robin 6
Northern Mockingbird 2
Seaside Sparrow 3
Song Sparrow 1
Boat-tailed Grackle 20
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