Renews, Trepassey, St Shotts, Cape Race - Saturday

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Ken Knowles, John Wells and I put in a good effort in the alders at Trepassey for a few hours early this morningg in nice weather conditions but came up empty handed as far as vagrants were concern. Large number of the seven commonest species of warblers with Northern Waterthrush being double-abundant.

St Shotts-Sod Farm - not much, fog city

Trepassey Shorebirds -
3 Red Knots including an adult with a green flag on left tibia. All three letters read. should be able to find out where and when it was banded.

Long Beach - pretty good numbers (100+) of shorebirds on the rotting kelp bed. Mostly adult White-rumped Sandpipers and juvenile Semipalmated Sandpipers but also the first juvenile Ruddy Turnstones I've seen this year. Plus a Short-billed Dow.

Cape Race in fog - a few manx and sooty shearwaters flying by in close.

Renews shorebirds -
5 juvenile Short-billed Dow and the usual riff-raff.

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Information on the colour banded Red Knot seen at Trepassey today.

It was banded at Pierce's Point Beach, New Jersey on 17 May 2015. Many Red Knot and other migrating shorebirds are banded at this location on the New Jersey side of Delaware Bay. The shorebirds stop here in spring to fatten up on the horseshoe crab eggs being produced in large quanities at the same time.

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