I took a short trip to Plum Island on 8/14. There was a nice selection of terns at Sandy Point as well as good numbers of shorebirds. Annoying people were out as well.
BONAPARTE'S GULL
BONAPARTE'S GULL
SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER
GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL
This bird was banded on the Appledore Islands by Dr. Julie Ellis.
LAUGHING GULL
LEAST TERN
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, SEMI-PALMATED PLOVERS, SEMI-PLAMATED SANDPIPERS
Lots of shorebirds means food for raptors.
This PEREGRINE FALCON ended up grabbing a semi-palm plover.
Thousands of migrating TREE SWALLOWS
COMMON TERNS, ROSEATE TERNS
Amazing pictures as usual. The laughing gull needs to cheer up, looks very sad to me:)
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