Sunday Shots, 08/07/22 – Things are Happening

At least shorebirds are moving to some extent at this point. You probably saw that I had an UPLAND SANDPIPER on Friday evening. On Saturday no one appears to have relocated the Uppy, but Bruce Nott did find 3 Caspian Terns at Cornwall Bay, and later in the evening I tried for the Uppy again and was rewarded with a flyover of 4 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS. I actually picked them up in a distant field, but they picked up an flew; as far as I know they didn’t return. It’s refreshing to see that fall migration is beginning; let’s hope for a good one.

~Least Bittern fledgling at 6 1/2 Station Road Sanctuary, 08/06/22.~
~Young Cooper’s Hawk in my yard, 08/05/22. It looks like this bird is flying right at me, but actually I was hidden in my screened in porch and the bird flew directly over.~
~My first Black-bellied Plovers of the season. It seems early to me, but I was thrilled to see them on Saturday, 08/06/22.~
~One of nearly 20 Horned Lark fledglings I saw in the black dirt on Friday night, 08/05/22.~

~A couple of young Brown-headed Cowbirds in the black dirt, 08;05/22.~