With a few spare hours, I drove up to Hoover hoping to tally many of the shorebirds seen earlier in the day.  What a difference a few hours make!  I stopped at Sunbury causeway, Eastshore, Boardwalk, and Wiese Road.  Shorebird flocks were few and scattered, and numbers were only a fraction of what Charlie & John saw earlier in the day.  Highlights included:

Great Blue Herons - 25+
Great Egret - 8
Canada Goose - 400+ (with 340 of them around the boardwalk mudflats)
Green-winged Teal - 8
N.Shoveler - 10
Black Vulture - 1 soaring with Turkey Vultures at Sunbury causeway
Peregrine - 1 flashed across the Eastshore mudflats, scattering shorebirds
Semipalmated Plover - 26+
Yellowlegs - very few: 3 Greater, 1 Lesser
Western Sandpiper - 2
Pectoral Spr - 6
Least Sandpipers - 24
Semipalm.Sandpipers - 30
Buff-breasted Spr - 1 (skittish on eastshore, flew north)
Short-billed Dowitcher - 2 at Wiese
Sanderling - 5 (4 at eastshore, 1 at Wiese)
Caspian Tern - 15 on mudbar at Eastshore
Red-headed Woodpecker - calling along treeline at Boardwalk

Eastshore was the best spot, while the boardwalk mudflats were almost empty save for a huge flock of geese.  At Eastshore and Wiese, you could watch small flocks of shorebirds take off down the reservoir, and a few came in from the north, so stuff is changing over rapidly.

Almost more startling than the shorebirds was a good accumulation of butterflies around the strands of flowering buckwheat along the shore at Eastshore and Wiese, including some uncommon vagrants.  Highlights here included
Fiery Skipper - 30+
Cloudless Sulphur - 2
Bronze Copper - 3
Gray Hairstreak - 1
American Painted Lady - 7
Painted Lady - 4
Variegated Fritillary - 1
Monarch - 50+

This list didn't all of the common Cabbage Whites, sulphurs, and anglewings that were scattered all over the willow edges.  You definitely want to take your butterfly guide along with your bird guide out here.

Rob

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