AM. GOLDEN PLOVER @ AIC

["Tim Avery" <tanager at timaverybirding dot com>]

I birded along the causeway this morning, was able to relocate the 
juvenile Whimbrel around MM 2.  No sign of the Turnstone, but there is a 
lot of shoreline, so....

Between MM 4-6 on the northside of the causeway:

2     American Golden-Plover (1/2 between MM 5-6)
21   Black-bellied Plover
104 Snowy Plover
22   Semipalmated Plover
35   Killdeer
4     Red Knot
57   Sanderling
119 Least Sandpiper
2     Semipalmated Sandpiper (probably more)
2     Pectoral Sandpiper
39   Baird's Sandpiper
1,700+ Western Sandpiper
50.000 American Avocet
1,000+ Black-necked Stilt
25    Willet
1,000+ Wilson's Phalarope
250+ Red-necked Phalarope
1      Spotted Sandpiper
11 Long-billed Curlew
100+ Long-billed Dowitcher
23  Yellowlegs sp. Flying

This is the best shorebirding I have had in a long time along the 
causeway.  Start keeping your eyes peeled for a Curlew Sandpiper or a 
Wandering Tattler, WHO KNOWS?

Also, a Peregrine Falcon is still hanging out near the causeway, as it 
turned the sky orange, white and black with Avocets on the northside.

Good Birding

Tim
http://www.timaverybirding.com
Salt Lake City, UT or Wherever the Birds Take Me!
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