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| Pectoral Sandpiper (Left) with Lesser Yellowlegs and Wood Duck, Hadley,MA, Aug 27, 2013 |
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| Pectoral Sandpiper (Left) with Lesser Yellowlegs and Wood Duck, Hadley,MA, Aug 27, 2013 |
Although not optimal conditions to bring down migrants (due
to winds out of the south) I still hoped to find something new this morning
following some heavy rain overnight. I
started out at Winsor Dam (which was very quiet) before heading over to the fields
near the old state school in Belchertown where I had 19 Killdeer. I then headed over to Hadley to check along
the Connecticut River and found almost the exact species composition and numbers as
yesterday in the same spot with a Pectoral Sandpiper, a Solitary Sandpiper, a
Spotted Sandpiper, three Semipalmated Sandpipers, 26 Least Sandpipers and three
Lesser Yellowlegs. The river had risen
slightly overnight but there were still a lot of mudflats for the birds to feed
on. It appears that the phalarope and others seen along the Longmeadow sandbar may have finally moved on after a several day stay as I saw no positive reports from there today.
Now for a brief update on the hurricane season as we
approach the end of August. Despite the
predictions for an above average year so far the season has been quite slow
with no hurricanes yet and a total of six named storms with nothing likely to
develop any time soon. The season
started off fairly quickly but due to a variety of meteorological issues,
storms have been few and rather weak.
You never know how the rest of the season will go but it is quiet for
the end of August.
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