Subject: ocean shores ; birding august -9
Date: Aug 11 10:18:32 1997
From: "Ruth Sullivan" - GODWIT at worldnet.att.net
hello birders,
today my son patrick and i we birdet ocean shores again to find view good
birds here are the highligths; on point brown jetty ;30 surfbirds, 3
wandering tattlers, 1 ruddy turnstone 2 spotted sandpipers; on the game
range sewage ponds we had 2 female blue winged teals, on the game range
sandbars there still was 4 BRAND considered rare in sommer we also found 10
elegant terns earlier that day there where 30 sited, damon point; east of
game range we had 4 american golden plovers, 3LESSER yellowlegs and 2
greater yellowlegs 2herring gulls further out there where also 25
black-bellied plovers,
on damon point big pond; we spotted 10 pectoral sanpipers, 1SANDERLING,
1semipalmated sandpiper 2red-necked phalarope and 34 long-billed dowitchers
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