I drove around the Wastewater properties this morning with next Saturday's field trip in mind. No aeration cell was drawn down, so there wasn't much shorebird habitat. The muck in Rapid Filtration Cell D4 attracted some shorebirds including this Pectoral Sandpiper, ...
... a Semipalmated Plover, some Least Sandpipers and several Killdeer. Lesser Yellowlegs and Spotted Sandpipers foraged the edges of the big lagoons. Among my 30 bird species were two Great Egrets, ...
... Cliff Swallows, Barn Swallows ...
... Wild Turkeys with their families, Eastern Wood-pewee, meadowlark, and Indigo Bunting.
I left at 11:45 about the time Bruce Delamarter was photographing this female American Kestrel with a grasshopper near the landfill.
- Ric
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