Recent Fall Photos

I'd be glad to answer any location/ID questions you have for this post. Otherwise, you're going to have to ID these by yourself. I'm being lazy on this one:

8/14: Parker River NWR

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

SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER

GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL

This bird was banded on the Appledore Islands by Dr. Julie Ellis.

http://gullsofappledore.wordpress.com/

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