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.

Greater Yellowlegs


Sandpiper of some ilk -- I just love the eye!

Lesser Yellowlegs


Willet

Snowy Egret

Least Sandpiper

Semipalmated Plover


Ruddy Turnstone

Laughing Gull

Not sure -- maybe Sanderling -- just like the angle

Greater Yellowlegs

Lesser Black-backed Gull

Glossy Ibis flying Solo



Least Sandpiper

Piping Plover




Succotash Marsh
Least Tern Ballet




The whole next week is supposed to be cool and comfortable as we enter August -- really?
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