Fall Migration Starts... for Shore Birds anyway!

Barbara Seith
Jul 30, 2023
2 min read

A little Sunday action that I missed last week to start off

Sunrise at Quonnie

Green Heron at Sue's Pond is Westerly

A fairly quiet Monday morning at Quonnie

Least Sandpiper

Semipalmated Sandpiper

Two Black-crowned Night-herons & a Yellow-Crowned Night-heron

Common Tern

The week has yielded a uptick in volume and diversity -- what fun! Shore Bird Fall Migration begins!

Great Blue Heron

Green Heron

Molting Herring Gull

Ruddy Turnstone

Juvenile Common Tern

Laughing Gull

Semipalmated Plover

Semipalmated Sandpiper

Lesser Black-backed Gull

Did an early morning pass at Succotash to see if anything new came in -- then back to Quonnie for a nice long sit.

Willet

Greater Yellowlegs

Least Sandpipers

Immature Willet

Quonnie

Great Blue Heron

Ruddy Turnstone

Immature Common Tern

Piping Plover

Thursday started at Quonnie with a raft of 150 Double-crested Cormorants acting as fish-finders for the Egrets, Herons, Gulls & Terns while floating around the pond. Lots of diversity!

Short-billed Dowitcher

Roseate Tern

Piping Plover

Least Sandpiper

Osprey

Succotash Marsh

My nest -- fully occupied

Fledgling looking proud

Snowy Egret, Greater Yellowlegs, Glossy Ibis

Friday I shared the Quonnie beach with Melissa Alexander & Al Schenck -- a Pectoral Sandpiper even flew in.

Double-crested Cormorants

Greater Yellowlegs

Willet

Lesser Yellowlegs

Ruddy Turnstone

Short-billed Dowitcher

Lesser Yellowlegs

Great Blue Heron & Great Egret

Short-billed Dowitcher

Sanderling

Pectoral Sandpiper

Immature Common Tern

Least Tern

Green Heron

Saturday morning at Succotash Marsh -- beautiful sunrise & lots of Egrets. Rainy morning

Egrets in the rain

A VERY early Sunday morning at Quonnie was lovely, cool and productive -- no dogs or other people! I made someone very happy when I left them a prime parking space.