Hornsby
8 species of shorebird at Hornsby this morning, including 2 Dunlin.











8 species of shorebird at Hornsby this morning, including 2 Dunlin.











Now is a good time to visit Hornsby to study the 3 small peeps (as Allan and I did this morning). Notice how the “frostier” semipalm and Western stick out in a group of brown Least. Notice the chevron marks on flanks of Western and lack of on Semipalm. Notice how colorful western is and…
Lance and I dipped on our target in corpus yesterday: Black noddy, but got better looks at lawn ornaments.
Forgot to ID all the birds in a previous quiz. Here there are. The Baird’s was kind of unfair The rest are Least, unless I missed something.
Spent 3.5 hours at Cedar Point on Lake Buchanan this morning. 40 species total including 5 Tri-colored herons and a Bushtit. 10 species of shorebirds including 3 new ones for the fall shorebird season: Marbled Godwit, Black-bellied Plover and Greater Yellowlegs. Conditions look pretty good there for shorebirds. I had 5 flocks of peeps fly…
Another great trip to High Island with Eric and others!!! Witnessing a fallout happen was amazing!!!
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…