The most striking feature of the environment at Popham early yesterday morning (6:40 to 9:00), was the clarity of the air. The cold front brought with it some cool, dry, invisible air. Scanning the offshore rocks was made much easier. Many visible Blk Guillemots, mostly basking in the sun, some wedged into the diagonal cracks on the rock faces. My first 3 Gray Seals of the season were spy-hopping just beyond the surf zone. A Spotted Sandpiper was flitting around the base of Three Herons I.
8 Black Scoters were 'spill-overs' from the 100s off Seawall Beach just now. Least Terns were behaving about as they have been for the past couple weeks. Lots of fish carrying, pairing up, food offering, etc. Could count 35 at one point. Most of the peeps were over in Atkins Bay on the exposed mudflats, but 450 Semi Sands were either on the intertidal sand or in the lagoon. Sanderlings and Semi Plovers are both increasing in numbers.
A Whimbrel was over at Green Point. Has been there for few weeks. 2 Killdeers fly-over - not common at Popham.
And still have yet to see the first White-rumped Sand here. Maybe the weather offshore has been too nice lately, allowing them to cruise straight down the GOM on their way to the West Indies.
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