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Posted by Vince Lucas on 07:09:34 08/29/10
In Reply to: Re: 2010: The Year We Make Shorebird Contact posted by Judd Patterson
I'll add that it was great birding and seeing a lot of the TAS folks that I hadn't seen in a while as Toe said. After leaving the group, Jose Padilla & I went to Gladeview Rd. but didn't add any new shorebirds to the list. We did add the Northern Harrier seen by Rock Jetty et al and we added Gull-billed Tern, making it the 8th tern species seen today by us: Royal, Least, Forster's, Caspian, Sandwich, Black, Gull-billed & Black Skimmer. We couldn't relocate the two Smooth-billed Anis found a week ago on Browns Farm Rd. Still, seeing 26 or 27 species of shorebirds in one day in Florida is not too shabby. The missing shorebirds from our list i.e. Long-billed Curlew & Red Knot were at Fort DeSoto Sunday and then add the White-rumped Sandpiper seen by Paul "Life Is Good" Bithorn & the TAS group on Sam Senter Rd. would have given us the magical "30" but alas, we couldn't be everywhere in the amount of daylight hours we had! Still, it was a lot of fun and I was glad to be a part of the effort. . . . Note to Toe: Did you get photoes of the banded Western Sandpiper and Wilson's Plover at Bunche Beach? We probably ought to report them.
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