Jeff Grabmeier and I birded the boardwalk and the eastern shore this
morning. The number of shorebirds is way down from last weekend,
particularly at the boardwalk. Highlights were a juvenile Baird's
Sandpiper off the boardwalk and a basic plumaged Wilson's Phalarope
at the north end of Pelican Island. The bird was well-observed, and
it is not the Red-necked Phalarope reported yesterday. While we were
there, a very ratty molting Northern Harrier spooked the shorebirds,
and we were never able to relocate the phalarope or most of the
sandpipers. The juvenile Little Blue Heron remains at the boardwalk.

Little Blue Heron
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Spotted Sandpiper
Black-bellied Plover - flew over the boardwalk heading southeast
Semipalmated Plover
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Semipalmated Sandpiper 
Least Sandpiper
Baird’s Sandpiper 
Pectoral Sandpiper
Stilt Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher 
Wilson’s Phalarope
 


Paul Gardner
Columbus, OH

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