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Posted by Bob Showler on 15:10:46 09/15/14
This morning I paddled into Snake Bight, from Christian Point to Gibby Point (NW shore). I recorded 50 species (in case you're wondering, Roger, this was during a day off!):
Brown Pelican: 8
Little Blue Heron: 55
Snowy Egret: 230
Tricolored Heron: 50
YC Night-Heron: 2
Osprey: 2
Spotted Sandpiper: 3
Great Blue Heron: 8 white and 2 blue
Laughing Gull: 350
Red-bellied Woodpecker: 1
White Ibis: 30
White-eyed Vireo: 3
Belted Kingfisher: 1
Green Heron: 2
Least Sandpiper: Present
Semipalmated Sandpiper: Present
Western Sandpiper: Present (if I tried to count peeps I'd still be there!)
Barn Swallow: 30
Clapper Rail: 2 (heard only)
Willet: 330
BB Plover: 20
Prairie Warbler: 3
Roseate Spoonbill: 50
Lesser Yellowlegs: 20
Semipalmated Plover: 40
Ruddy Turnstone: 15
Reddish Egret: 8 dark and 2 white morph
BN Stilt: 25
Wilson's Plover: 5
SB Dowitcher: 20
Great Egret: 80
Turkey Vulture: 1
RW Blackbird: 5
White Pelican: 34
American Avocet: 1
Black Skimmer: 30
Marbled Godwit: 120
Caspian Tern: 5
Royal Tern: 25
Forster's Tern: 12
Black Tern: 1
Cattle Egret: 1
Sandwich Tern: 2
Red Knot: 5
Gull-billed Tern: 1
Northern Shoveler: 2
DC Cormorant: 15
Wilson's Phalarope: 3
Red-necked Phalarope: 2 (at far NW end of "lagoon" behind mudflats, swimming in typical energized, erratic fashion, with one of the Wilson's Phalaropes, allowing for a great comparison of size and field marks)
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