Some shorebirds at Rock Point, mainly Dunlins, two Least and a Semipalmated Sandpiper.
On the parking lot we almost ran over a Killdeer nest! When getting out of the car the Killdeer warned frantically and dit its playing injured display and we discovered four eggs less than a meter from the car! Hope the eggs will survive until they are hatched, doesn't seem like the ideal place for a nest.
Summary of the observations from Rock Point
20 Canada Goose
20 Double-crested Cormorant
1 Turkey Vulture
1 Killdeer
1 Semipalmated Sandpiper (first this season)
2 Least Sandpiper (first this season)
30 Dunlin (first this season)
30 Ring-billed Gull
1 Herring Gull
10 Caspian Tern
1 Red-headed Woodpecker (new species, saw it flying with charasteristic black and white wing patterns)
2 Blue Jay
1 Purple Martin (first this season)
5 Tree Swallow
20 Bank Swallow (first this season)
5 Barn Swallow
10 American Robin
2 Gray Catbird
5 European Starling
5 Yellow Warbler
1 Chipping Sparrow
2 Song Sparrow
4 Red-winged Blackbird
20 Common Grackle
1 Baltimore Oriole
3 American Goldfinch
And the list from a short stop at Mud Lake
2 Canada Goose
1 Blue-winged Teal
1 Turkey Vulture
5 Ring-billed Gull
30 Tree Swallow
1 Yellow Warbler
1 Blackpoll Warbler (new species)
/Thomas
