Buff breasted Sandpiper and Least Sandpiper, Honey Pot, Hadley, MA, Sep 7, 2025
Buff breasted Sandpiper, Honey Pot, Hadley, MA, Sep 7, 2025
Buff breasted Sandpiper, Honey Pot, Hadley, MA, Sep 7, 2025
Buff breasted Sandpiper, Honey Pot, Hadley, MA, Sep 7, 2025
Winsor Dam, Quabbin Park, MA, Sep 7, 2025
Winsor Dam, Quabbin Park, MA, Sep 6, 2025
To end out the first week of September we got a nasty line of thunderstorms yesterday afternoon followed by some continuous light to moderate rain overnight into today. I was not going to head out following the line of storms last night but when Ted reported a Buff breasted Sandpiper in Hadley I thought perhaps other stuff might have been put down by the storms. I didn’t have the time or energy to make the ride over to Hadley so decided to head to Winsor Dam and I was glad I did. I was rewarded with a distant Black Tern moving over the water and occasionally picking something off the surface as it worked back and forth out toward the boat launch area. If it was earlier in the day I would have tried heading up to Gate 8 but it was just too late and the road down would be closed long before I got there. Although distant the views through the scope were good enough to cinch the ID but just too far away to get any useful photos or videos. I was up before dawn today and headed out in the rain to go see if the Buff breasted Sandpiper stayed and given the poor migration conditions I was hopeful. I arrived and ran into Ted and we started scanning the fields and picked up on the very active individual fairly quickly. It was a fair distant away initially and made getting any useable photos tough. Eventually it moved in slightly closer and I got some passable
photos and videos. Two new species for the year in as many days…not too shabby at all. I now stand at 232 species for the year in Hampshire County which puts me just too behind my best ever YTD total at this point (which was 2021 when I ended with my highest year total ever in the county with 249). I doubt I will beat my old record but it will end up being a very good year overall with only adding a handful of remaining expected species. Now if we get a tropical system to impact the area I could add multiple species but the chances of that for any given year are fairly low and there is no activity in the Atlantic right now.
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