Least Sandpiper
“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.”
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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.
Other birds spotted while in Two Lights include Common Terns, Common Eiders, Ring-billed and Great-black backed Gulls, a Least Sandpiper fly through, a single Osprey and several Gray Catbirds.
…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 July 9 within the Rachael Carson National Wildlife Refuge along Sawyer Road I observed six Least Sandpipers, three Greater Yellowlegs and a Willet noisily driving an Eastern Kingbird from its perch atop a metal pole.
The following day, August 5 along Sawyer Road I spotted nine Least Sandpipers and a single Pectoral Sandpiper.
Scanning the marsh I noted a large flock of Glossy Ibis’ along with Least Sandpipers, Lesser and Greater Yellowlegs.
On August 9 along Sawyer Road, I spotted nine Least Sandpipers and a single Pectoral Sandpiper—a robust shorebird about robin-sized, with a thick bill and long wings.