South Beach Birding, Chatham, Ma

Howdee all,

A few Saturdays ago, Jeff and I joined a group of birders on a guided trip Sponsored by Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary.

The trip left Outermost Harbor..

a fifteen minute trip to South Beach.

Although it wasn’t prime shorebird migration we did see a decent amount of birds.

Snowy Egret

walking the mud flats..

Low tide

Birders looking at Shore Birds

Whimbrel in the grass

clammers in the mud flats..

It was an overcast day, but otherwise quite nice.

I have more photos of birders than birds.

we did see birds, really!

Here is our trip leader looking at one of his favorite birds.

See below..

We all had great looks at many

Saltmarsh Sparrows

A beautiful little bird.

We walked to the ocean, the Golden Rod was loaded with these moths..

any ideas of who they are?

Monarch on Goldenrod

Oh..how I love these scenes

What a beautiful place…

Looking for Jaegers, Gannets and other Pelagic birds.

What's this?

A Peregrine hanging out at the beach…

  I love South beach..

31 species (+1 other taxa)

American Black Duck  
White-winged Scoter  
Common Loon  
Northern Gannet  
Great Blue Heron  
Great Egret  
Snowy Egret  
Black-crowned Night-Heron  
Northern Harrier  
Black-bellied Plover  
Semipalmated Plover  
American Oystercatcher  
Greater Yellowlegs  
Willet  
Ruddy Turnstone  
Red Knot  
Semipalmated Sandpiper 
Least Sandpiper  
Pectoral Sandpiper  
Laughing Gull  
Herring Gull  
Lesser Black-backed Gull  
Great Black-backed Gull  
Roseate Tern  
Common Tern  
jaeger sp.  
Mourning Dove  
Belted Kingfisher  
Peregrine Falcon  
American Crow  
Horned Lark  
Saltmarsh Sparrow