SUPER QUICK POST: I had loads to do tonight to get ready for my Vermont golf trip, but made it out to the black dirt this evening because conditions seemed ripe for good shorebirds. I was happily surprised beyond what I would have hoped for. On Skinners Lane, I located a really great collection of shorebirds, all in a single field: 12 Black-bellied Plover, 43 American Golden-Plover, 10 Killdeer, 1 Greater Yellowlegs, 4 Lesser Yellowlegs and definitely the best bird of the day, 5 SANDERLINGS.
I put the word out and Linda Scrima and Rob Stone both joined me to enjoy the birds. Excellent OC birding!
Congratulations Matt and thanks for the call!
Thanks John!
How wonderful, Matt, such an exciting find!
Yes, it was only the second time I’ve had Sanderlings in OC – last time was after Hurricane Irene in 2011; they were some of my earliest shorebirds in the black dirt not long after moving here and getting more into birding. Matt