Shorebirds Hornsby
13 species of shorebirds at Hornsby yesterday including some very colorful birds.
Also nice of them to build so much additional Spotted Sandpiper habitat!!







13 species of shorebirds at Hornsby yesterday including some very colorful birds.
Also nice of them to build so much additional Spotted Sandpiper habitat!!







Had 13 shorebird species at Lake Balmorhea this morning. American Avocet, Less Yellowlegs, Greater Yellowlegs, Least Sandpiper, Snowy Plover, Killdeer, Spotted Sandpiper, Long-billed Curlew, Upland Sandpiper, Black-necked stilt, Solitary Sandpiper, Wilson’s Phalarope, and Western Sandpiper. Other birds of interest were: an early Ring-billed gull, Tricolored Heron, Black terns, Forster’s Tern, Neotropic cormorant and Black and…
Still from Granger yesterday. Here’s a few shorebirds for any graduate of the Shorebird Class to ID. Look at the flying flock carefully.
Here’s a couple of sightings at Hornsby that might interest some of our future repeat offenders from Shorebird Class. (Not my sightings, reported on Ebird daily). Remember a couple of our elliptical migrants we didn’t expect to see this fall? Several asked about the possibility of seeing in the fall. Although, no pix with the…
With North wind coming on I decided to go watch for migrants at Granger Lake. I was not disappointed!!
Here’s an Empid (and friends) we had on field trip today. Maybe someone else can post the other flycatcher (which I neglected to get pix of).
I thought this exchange in the Shorebird class might be of interest to B3. First Lance’s question, then my response. From Lance Felber (2020 Shorebird student) I noticed while looking at Least Sandpiper in a couple of different guides a fairly large discrepancy in lengths listed. So I looked at Least, Semi, and Western in…