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Posted by Bryant Roberts on 12:45:35 08/22/10
A paddle Saturday afternoon along the west and north shores of Snake Bight turned up an American Flamingo near the northeastern corner of the bight. Willets and Short-billed Dowitchers were the most numerous shorebirds. Other interesting bird seen included a Stilt Sandpiper, two Gull-billed Terns, three American Avocets two of which would have been visible from the boardwalk, and good numbers of Roseate Spoonbills. Semipalmated Sandpipers, most of which were in basic plumage were by far the most numerous of the peep but there were also a good many Western Sandpipers of which only a couple showed any trace of alternate plumage as well as a few Least Sandpipers. Here is the list of birds seen; the larger numbers are rough estimates.
American White Pelican (10)
Brown Pelican (6)
Anhinga (1)
Great Blue Heron (5)
Great Blue Heron (white morph) (10)
Great Egret (50)
Reddish Egret (10)
Tricolored Heron (20)
Little Blue Heron (100)
Snowy Egret (25)
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron (1)
White Ibis (50)
Roseate Spoonbill (150)
American Flamingo (1)
Turkey Vulture (10)
Osprey (10)
Red-shouldered Hawk (1)
Black-necked Stilt (50)
American Avocet (3)
Black-bellied Plover (10)
Semipalmated Plover (50)
Wilson s Plover (2)
Short-billed Dowitcher (hundreds)
Marbled Godwit (100)
Greater Yellowlegs (1)
Lesser Yellowlegs (1)
Spotted Sandpiper (20)
Willet (hundreds)
Ruddy Turnstone (10)
Semipalmated Sandpiper (150)
Western Sandpiper (30)
Least Sandpiper (8)
Stilt Sandpiper (1)
Laughing Gull (100)
Gull-billed Tern (2)
Sandwich Tern (50)
Royal Tern (50)
Forster s Tern (10)
Least Tern (30)
Black Skimmer (100)
White-crowned Pigeon (30)
Belted Kingfisher (5)
Red-bellied Woodpecker (1)
Purple Martin (10)
Barn Swallow (100)
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (1)
Prairie Warbler (1)
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