Today Marc Schroeder joined me at the Hoover Nature Preserve to see what  
shorebirds might have dropped in after the weather front that came through  
Sunday. We checked activity at the Area M boardwalk, Wiese Road and along the  east 
shore. We had a nice variety of birds and we met John Kuenzli who informed  
us of some species we had not located. Birds of interest observed include:
 
Blue-winged Teal
Green-winged Teal
Northern  Shoveler
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Egret
Bald  Eagle                                    (immature  north of Pelican 
Island)
Red-shouldered  Hawk                    (1  fly-over at east shore)
Black-bellied  Plover                        (only  1 today and it flew north)
Semipalmated  Plover                       (good numbers at all  locations)
Killdeer                                            
Greater  Yellowlegs
Lesser  Yellowlegs
Willet                                            (located  by John near 
Eastshore Yacht Club)
Spotted Sandpiper
Ruddy  Turnstone                           (nice  group at east shore just 
north of Pelican  Island) 
Sanderling                                    (nice  numbers and cooperative 
north of Pelican Island)
Semipalmated  Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Baird’s  Sandpiper                        (few  and scattered at both Wiese 
Road and east shore)
Pectoral  Sandpiper
Buff-breasted  Sandpiper                 (  a few at Wiese Road, more and 
closer at east  shore)   
Short-billed  Dowitcher                    (14  at Wiese Road and more at 
east shore)
Red-necked  Phalarope                   (1 with  gulls and terns at east 
shore) 
Caspian  Tern                                 (small  group at east shore)   
Black  Tern                                      (several with gulls at east 
shore)
Yellow-throated  Vireo                      (1  viewed along tree line as we 
departed east shore)  
 
Charlie Bombaci
Hoover Nature Preserve
Delorme 58 C (2) &  (3)
 
 



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