12 birders met at Oyster Bay for another search for migrating shorebirds. We had front row seat looks at Baird’s Sandpipers and Semipalmated Plovers.
Thanks to Art Martell for supplying the following species list:
Oyster Bay, Comox-Strathcona, CA-BC
Sep 1, 2013 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM
24 species
Canada Goose 53
Mallard 10
Northern Shoveler 10
Northern Pintail 20
Green-winged Teal 20
Common Loon 1
Double-crested Cormorant 3
Great Blue Heron 1
Turkey Vulture 5
Black-bellied Plover 1
Semipalmated Plover 3
Killdeer 1
Western Sandpiper 41
Least Sandpiper 13
Baird’s Sandpiper 2
Bonaparte’s Gull 23
Mew Gull 1
California Gull 3
Glaucous-winged Gull 5
Caspian Tern 2
Pigeon Guillemot 1
Marbled Murrelet 3
Belted Kingfisher 1
Merlin 2
