Hornsby
13 Species of shorebirds at Hornsby this morning, plus first of season (for me) of these quackers.

13 Species of shorebirds at Hornsby this morning, plus first of season (for me) of these quackers.

Here’s a good one. At Hornsby now if any want to come down.
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).
Here’s a comparison of Semipalmated with a Least. So I think we can see actual black legs here on this sandpiper. It’s a short-winged bird; wings are just atop tail. Bill is short and pretty straight. Overall coloration is fairly pale, not brown. Baird’s and Least are brown-hued birds. Both also have a chest coloration…
Continuing with Gulls FT last weekend: These 3 made about 5 passes in a very interesting display just for us!!!
Regretfully we were a little short on SHORE for he shorebirds class field trip to corpus over the weekend. But I think we enjoyed it none the less and ended up with around 20 shorebird species!! Highlights for me were seeing a Cassin’s Kingbird at Blucher park, more Red Knots than I’ve ever seen ~20,…