Plum Island 9/24

From Ida Giriunas:

A fun day on the Brookline Bird club Plum island trip today (9/24/11). After the drizzles, we enjoyed clear skies and warm weather. Many birding Highlights included one Hudsonian Godwit and many other birds at Stage Island Pool,

2 CASPIAN TERNS and 2 Forster’s terns among the 100 or more Common Terns and hundreds of shorebirds at Sandy Point. Then, on the way to Hampton Beach we stopped to find Wayne Peterson looking at 2 Buff Breasted sandpipers in the plowed field across from the P.I. airport.  At Hampton Beach in N.H. ,we did not find the Curlew Sandpiper but enjoyed close-up views of several Golden Plovers, more Buff-breasted sandpipers and Pectoral sandpipers.  On return to Massachusetts we stopped in Seabrook and saw the American Avocet which has been there for several days.