AmericanAvocet

Photo Study Of Some Birds At Bombay Hook NWR And Port Mahon, August 11th, 2010

Driving into Bombay Hook NWR yesterday, I saw 700 swallows on the wires along Whitehall Neck Road (Tree, Cliff, Barn and Northern Rough-winged.) Also, the weak cold front that went through Delaware on Tuesday evening brought thousands of shorebirds into the Bombay Hook area. All three of the major pools in the Refuge were filled with shorebirds.
I counted 260 American Avocets in Raymond's.

There were Egrets everywhere, but at the end of Bear Swamp Pool, there were some 200 Great and Snowy Egrets feeding actively.

There were so many Great Egrets, they were fighting over places to perch.

And at Port Mahon, the shorebirds occupied every open piece of sand or mud!

And shortly after an Osprey carrying half a fish decided to fly right over me,

a small flock of Ruddy Turnstones decided to fly right in front of me!

Species seen:

Canada Goose	Ruddy Turnstone	Clapper Rail
Wood Duck	Short-billed Dowitcher	Northern Flicker
American Black Duck	Black-necked Stilt	Eastern Kingbird
Mallard	American Avocet	Tree Swallow
Double-crested Cormorant	Greater Yellowlegs	Barn Swallow
Great Blue Heron	Lesser Yellowlegs	Cliff Swallow
Great Egret	Willet	Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Snowy Egret	Semipalmated Plover	American Robin
Little Blue Heron	Semipalmated Sandpiper	Gray Catbird
Glossy Ibis	Least Sandpiper	Northern Mockingbird
Black Vulture	Royal Tern	Blue Grosbeak
Turkey Vulture	Forster's Tern	Indigo Bunting
Osprey	Ring-billed Gull	Red-winged Blackbird
Bald Eagle	Laughing Gull	American Goldfinch
American Kestrel	Great Black-backed Gull	Mourning Dove

To see a larger image of any of the photos below, please click on either the thumbnails or the captions...thanks!


American Avocet	Black-necked Stilt	Black-necked Stilt Juvenile And Adult	Lots Of Egrets At Bear Swamp	Glossy \Ibis

Glossy Ibises	Great Blue Heron	Great Egrets Challenge	Great Egrets Challenge 2	Great Egrets Challenge 3

Snowy Egret	Adult Great Black-backed Gull	Very Worn 1st Summer Great Black-backed Gull	1st Summer Great Black-backed Gull	Laughing Gull Breeding Plumage

Laughing Gull Nonbreeding Plumage	Royal Tern 1	Royal Tern 2	Banded Royal Tern	Forster's Tern

Greater Yellowlegs	Lesser Yellowlegs	Ruddy Turnstone	Ruddy Turnstone 2	Sanderling

Semipalmated Plover	Semipalmated Plover 2	D-Semipalmated Sandpiper Territorial Display	D-Semipalmated Sandpiper Territorial Display 2	D-Semipalmated Sandpiper Territorial Display 3

D-Semipalmated Sandpiper Territorial Display 4	D-Short-billed Dowitcher	D-Short-billed Dowitcher2	Osprey	Osprey 2

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