Sanderling
“A couple of days before Christmas my mother-in-law spotted a flock of Sanderlings moving at a good clip along the rocky coast of Two Lights State Park.”
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A couple of days before Christmas my mother-in-law spotted a flock of Sanderlings moving at a good clip along the rocky coast of Two Lights State Park.
Sightings included Sanderlings, Semipalmated Plovers and Sandpipers, White-rumped Sandpipers, Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs.
Sightings over the last two weeks included a Whimbrel, Sanderlings, Semipalmated Plovers and Sandpipers, White-rumped Sandpipers, Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs.
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.
On this same outing I noted seventeen Common Loons, six Long-tailed Ducks a lone Horned Grebe and a single Sanderling foraging at the icy water’s edge.