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Posted by Jim Sigsbee on 20:19:20 05/18/09
I was unable to get to Jacksonville to see the Greater Sand Plover over the weekend, so I drove up this morning. The weather was terrible, cold, windy, and raining. This turned out to be a good thing, however, since a Pomarine Jaeger was hunkered down on the beach. A Red-necked Phalarope was hunkered down most of the morning in a shallow depression on the beach as well. The Greater Sand Plover finally made a stellar appearance around 1 p.m. and all of the visiting birders left happy, including me. There were five Whimbrel in the area, some Semipalmated Sandpipers, Lesser Black-backed Gull, and at least two hundred Red Knots, most of them in lovely breeding plumage. Red Knot was by far the most numerous shorebird, but there was a nice selection of gulls, terns, skimmers, plovers, and sandpipers too.
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