Plum Island 7/18

From Ida Giruinas:

Hello folks:

Our BBC trip last night was highlighted by the HUNDREDS of shorebirds at the Bill Forward Pool at Hellcat.  It was handicapped by hundreds of Greenheads .  We did find relief from them at the new blind at the Bill  Forward Pool but the sun was in our eyes.  We moved to the dike with better light and many insect bites.  Most birds were too far away for good identification but we did manage to I.D. the HUDSONIAN GODWIT reported earlier.  The peeps and the dowitchers were too far away from the dike to safely separate one species from another except by silhouette.  Morning is the time to study that area with the light behind you and the birds a bit closer than from the dike.

There were  about 20 egrets in the pool but no Little egret.

Good birding everyone.