Black-bellied Plover
“The following day my son and I spotted nineteen Sanderlings and seven medium sized, stockier shorebirds with stubby bills (Black-bellied Plovers) dining on marine worms along the wrack-line towards the far end of Crescent Beach.”
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Black-bellied Plovers, Piping Plovers, Sandpipers, Lesser and Greater Yellow Legs have all been spotted.
As for shorebirds, there are good numbers of semipalmated and black-bellied plovers along Crescent Beach.
Highlights from Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge, Scarborough Marsh and Crescent Beach State Park include, Semipalmated Plovers and sandpipers, Black-bellied Plovers, Least Sandpipers, Greater and Lesser Yellow Legs and Killdeer.
As for shorebirds, there are good numbers of Semipalmated and Black-bellied plovers along Crescent Beach.
The following day my son and I spotted nineteen Sanderlings and seven medium sized, stockier shorebirds with stubby bills (Black-bellied Plovers) dining on marine worms along the wrack-line towards the far end of Crescent Beach.
…American Bittern or Virginia Rail Two other notes from the field over the last several weeks include, on June 12 along Crescent Beach State Park, four Black-bellied Plovers and three Least Sandpipers and on June 14 my wife spotted a Brown Thrasher in an old crab apple tree in our backyard.
On the windy overcast day of May 20, I crept out onto the end of Dyer Point and found a single Brant, two Laughing Gulls and two Black-bellied Plovers hunkered down.