Birds at Hornsby
a few from recent Hornsby visits.
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Shorebird Field Trip Corpus Christi 2024
Eric, Lance and I led the Shorebird Class to Corpus over the last weekend. I had a great time with highlights for me being: “That’s him!!!” (IDing the long-staying Glaucous Gull in mid-air at 65 mph on the JFK causeway), Identifying grass-pipers at the sod farms with the class at about ½ mile distant (definitely…
Shorebirds at Hornsby
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…
Slender-billed Curlew
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Shorebirds Class Field Trip 2022
I came up with 113 species on Corpus FT (for my personal list).
Shorebird Class Field Trip to Corpus 2022
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Shorebird Quiz
Ok, here’s today’s quiz photo!!! How many can you ID? Taken at Hornsby last night. Hint: there are 6 species.