AAfCW 2014 Volunteer Update #22

This is the twenty-second and final weekly update by the Audubon Alliance for Coastal Waterbirds (AAfCW) for the 2014 season. Today's update includes reports of Piping Plover, American Oystercatcher, Least Tern and Common Tern from August 25 through 4:00 p.m. on September 2 with sightings of birds by volunteers and staff spanning that period.

Informational updates:

Thank you to all volunteers who assisted us with fencing removal last week! This is the last regular weekly update for the AAfCW 2014 season. Please send in any data or information if you have not yet submitted it this year.

We had a tremendous year in 2014 with very strong numbers of juvenile Piping Plovers as the main highlight. We will be in contact with all of you with updates of seasonal data and information later this season. Please keep an eye out for an email with another announcement soon.

Our sincerest and deepest thanks to all of our monitors and volunteers who worked so tirelessly all year - we could not accomplish any of this without you! If you would like to continue to help in surveying for other waterbirds throughout the fall or until spring 2015 please email us at ctwaterbirds@gmail.com. We hope all of you return for 2015 to continue our terrific work and we will see you at the shore.

Survey and monitoring updates:

Piping Plover

1 juvenile at Sandy/Morse Points on 8/26

1 juvenile at Sandy/Morse Points on 8/30
1 juvenile at Sandy/Morse Points on 8/31

American Oystercatcher

1 adult at Sandy/Morse Points on 8/26

1 pair, 1 juvenile at Harkness Memorial State Park on 8/26

1 adult at Sandy/Morse Points on 8/27

21 adults, 2 juveniles at Short Beach on 8/27

3 adults at Milford Point on 8/28

15 adults at Short Beach on 8/31
1 pair, 1 juvenile at Tuxis Island on 9/2

Least Tern

7 adults, 3 juveniles at Griswold Point on 8/26

2 adults, 2 juveniles at Griswold Point on 8/29

Common Tern

1 adult at Griswold Point on 8/24
100 adults at Sandy/Morse Points on 8/25
130 adults, 70 juveniles at Bradley Point at Savin Rock on 8/25
8 adults at Harkness Memorial State Park on 8/26
10 adults at Griswold Point on 8/26
2 adults at Sherwood Island State Park on 8/27
12 adults at Russian Beach on 8/27
200 adults at Sandy/Morse Points on 8/27
50 adults at Silver Sands State Park on 8/28
200 adults at Sandy/Morse Points on 8/29
100 adults at Bradley Point at Savin Rock on 8/29
15 adults at Sandy/Morse Points on 8/31

This concludes update #22 through 9/2/14 as of 5:00 p.m.