After reading an ARBird post about some interesting birds at Joe Hogan, I decided to zip out there on the last day of the month to see if I could get my monthly species count to 100 (it was currently at 99). As I was driving past Anderson’s I spotted a gaggle of birders by one drained pond and decided to stop and see what was going on. Glad I did. The pond was full of shorebirds and terns, seven species of the first and three of the other. Of primary interest was what I mistook for a Hudsonian Godwit but which turned out to be the still exotic but more likely Marbled Godwit. Even so, I was able to puish my monthly count over 100 for the fifth month in a row.
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Species seen or heard:
- Mallard
- Great Blue Heron
- Great Egret
- Snowy Egret
- Green Heron
- Semipalmated Plover
- American Avocet
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Lesser Yellowlegs
- Marbled Godwit
- Semipalmated Sandpiper
- Least Sandpiper
- Pectoral Sandpiper
- Least Tern
- Forster’s Tern
- Bank Swallow
