7/28 Winthrop and Belle Isle Shorebirds+Virginia Rail

[Paul Peterson]

I birded at high tide from 12:00-6:00 with dinner break at Dunkin. L started as a human, but ended as a LOBSTER! OUCH! I walked from the five sisters at Winthrop Beach to Yirrell Beach

Snowy Egret 11
Great Egret 8
Great Blue Heron 2
Osprey 3 one young in nest
Virginia Rail 1 on left at end of boardwalk; fantastic looks. KEEK! wep wep weprrr
Black-bellied Plover 15 flushed by kayaker off one of the sisters
Piping Plover 1+
Killdeer 2
Semipalmated Plover 20+
Least Sandpiper 1 Belle Isle
Semipalmated Sandpiper 100+
White-rumped Sandpiper 1 easily stuck out
American Oystercatcher 10 three sisters, seven near Yirrell Beach
Ruddy Turnstone 2 flushed off sister by kayaker
Greater Yellowlegs 5
Lesser Yellowlegs 1
Least Tern 16
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 6 beginning of Yirrell Beach; other side of road
Saltmarsh Sparrow 2+

Paul Peterson
peterso...@yahoo.com
Boston