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Posted by Marcello Gomes on 21:30:10 04/30/14
I do recollect migration being good for a day or two. It was all good but it all came to a screeching halt. Maybe it's all the red tape with migration and U.S. authorities are giving some of our best birds a hard time about where they might have been, if they were hanging out with shady characters in mixed flocks, and if they are bringing any illegal seeds within them . and the list goes on
For the third Sunday in a row there was another sighting of a Whimbrel. The first sunday 4/13 was a single individual. The following sunday 4/20 - 8 of them. This past sunday 4/27 another individual which was flying north and for some odd reason took a half turn and began heading south as if to look for another straggler who couldn't keep up with it. This is just a wild speculation.
In the past few days I have seen 3 Magnificent Frigatebirds - they were far from the coast with the exception of one of them today which was flying right over the shore (male).
Brown Pelicans are still in good numbers ( dozens)
Ruddy Turnstone - two dozen or so
Sanderling - half-dozen give or take depending on the day
Sandwich tern is breeding and non-breeding stages - several
Laughing Gull - Dozens and mostly immatures
Royal Terns - dozen or so mostly immatures with a couple of breeding adults keeping the young ones in line.
It seems that the Coast Guard must be holding migration pattern over the ocean as well since the numbers of Northern Gannets are low ( peak must have passed). I have seen a handful of them in the mid to late afternoons while I was at the location. Nothing else noteworthy on this report. I'll let the images do some more talking.
If you happen to not even have seen sight of some warblers migrating through, I have posted some of them as a consolation prize this Spring. I expanded my horizons and added a few other things that you can readily tell they are not bird related. But it all have to do with nature. "Planet Jupiter" is involved .
Let's hope that the next storm over the weekend bring us all some rare aviary treats. I tend to see the "sky is half-full" of birds type of person that is MY nature!
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