AAfCW 2015 Volunteer Update #15

This is the fifteenth weekly update by the Audubon Alliance for Coastal Waterbirds (AAfCW) for the 2015 season. Today's update includes reports of Piping Plover, American Oystercatcher, Least Tern and Common Tern from July 6 through 4:00 p.m. on July 13 with sightings of birds by volunteers and staff spanning that period.

Informational updates:

Typical hot summer beach weather has certainly arrived, and we still have young of many ages, from juveniles to fledglings, older chicks and young chicks plus nests, on our beaches. Please keep monitoring as much as you can, especially when it seems as if it will be a busy beach day. We may have thunderstorms once again this week so please keep an eye on the radar before you head out. Thank you to everyone for all their hard work and the constant updates on disturbances and threats to the birds as well. We log them all and every bit of the information you provide is valuable both now and years down the road.

Survey and monitoring updates:

Piping Plover
5 adults, 3 hatchlings, 5 fledglings at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/6
2 pairs, 3 adults, 3 hatchlings, 3 fledglings, 1 nest at Long Beach on 7/7
4 pairs, 5 adults, 9 hatchlings at Hammonasset on 7/7
1 pair, 1 nest at Shell Ave on 7/8
1 pair, 1 nest at East Broadway Milford on 7/8
21 adults/juveniles/fledglings, 4 hatchlings at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/8
14 adults, 1 hatchling, 8 fledglings, 1 nest at Milford Point on 7/9
5 adults, 8 juveniles, 1 nest at Long Beach on 7/9
1 pair, 1 adult at Hammonasset on 7/9
1 pair, 3 adults, 1 nest at Sandy Point Island on 7/9
2 pairs, 3 adults, 4 hatchlings, 3 fledglings at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/9
9 pairs, 9 adults at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/9
1 pair, 8 adults/juveniles, 6 hatchlings at Long Beach on 7/10
1 pair, 3 adults, 3 hatchlings at Bluff Point on 7/10
23 adults/juveniles, 4 hatchlings at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/11
1 pair, 7 adults, 1 hatchling, 2 fledglings, 1 nest at Long Beach on 7/12
2 pairs, 7 adults, 3 hatchlings, 7 fledglings, 4 juveniles, 1 nest at Griswold Point on 7/12
1 pair, 1 nest at East Broadway Milford on 7/13

American Oystercatcher
1 pair, 2 juveniles at Salt Island on 7/5
1 pair, 1 nest at Long Rock off Griswold Island on 7/6
2 adults at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/6
1 pair at Long Beach on 7/7
1 adult at Quinnipeag Rock on 7/7
2 pairs, 4 fledglings at Shore Rock on 7/7
1 adult at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/8
6 pairs, 4 adults, 3 fledglings, 1 hatchling at Menunketesuck Island on 7/8
1 pair, 1 adult at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/9
9 pairs, 1 adult, 13 fledglings, 1 nest at Sandy Point Island on 7/9
8 adults at Milford Point on 7/9
1 pair at Long Beach on 7/9
1 pair, 2 fledglings at Tuxis Island on 7/9
1 pair at Hammonasset on 7/9
1 pair, 1 adult, 3 hatchlings at Bluff Point on 7/10
4 adults at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/11
1 pair, 1 nest at Lewis Island, Thimbles on 7/10
1 pair at Davis Island, Thimbles on 7/10

Least Tern
24 adults at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/6
92 adults, 29 nests, 23 hatchlings at Menunketesuck Island on 7/8
19 adults at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/8
25 adults at Milford Point on 7/9
3 adults at Long Beach on 7/9
4 adults at Meigs Point on 7/9
8 adults at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/9
3 pairs, 9 adults at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/9
9 adults at Bluff Point on 7/10
40 adults at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/11
2 adults at Sasco Hill Beach on 7/12
50 adults at Griswold Point on 7/12

Common Tern
34 adults, 6 nests, 2 hatchlings at Menunketesuck Island on 7/8
1 adult at Milford Point on 7/9
2 adults at Long Beach on 7/9
19 adults at Sandy Point Island on 7/9
30 adults at Griswold Point on 7/12

This concludes update #15 through 7/13/15 as of 5:30 p.m.