AAfCW 2017 Volunteer Update #11

This is the eleventh weekly update by the Audubon Alliance for Coastal Waterbirds (AAfCW) for the 2017 season. Today's update includes reports of Piping Plover, American Oystercatcher, Least Tern, and Common Tern through 10:00 a.m. on June 19 with sightings of birds by volunteers and staff since the previous update on June 12.

Informational updates:

Once again the main headline of the week is weather with today and tomorrow potentially producing poor monitoring conditions and cancelled surveys. Wednesday may yield a shower before a couple of hopefully dry days and then a weekend with the chance for more precipitation. Even as we pass through mid-June we have Piping Plover nests being exclosed, so please be on the lookout for additional nests and be aware DEEP and AAfCW staff are working as diligently as possible - when weather allows - to get these tasks completed. This also means we will hopefully be seeing hatchlings and fledglings in need of monitoring well into August, so your help will certainly be needed until September! As always, thank you all for your data, information, and education while on the beach.

Survey and monitoring updates:

Piping Plover

5 pairs, 2 adults, 9 hatchlings, 6 nests at Long Beach on 6/12

2 pairs, 5 adults, 4 hatchlings, 2 nests at Long Beach on 6/13

10 adults, 8 nests at Milford Point on 6/13
2 pairs, 5 adults, 6 hatchlings, 1 nest at Long Beach on 6/13

1 pair, 2 adults, 3 hatchlings at Harkness Memorial State Park on 6/14
1 pair, 1 nest at Silver Sands State Park on 6/14
5 pairs, 3 nests at Sandy Point Island on 6/14

1 pair, 1 nest at Silver Sands State Park on 6/14
1 adult, 1 nest at Silver Sands State Park on 6/14

2 pairs, 4 adults, 2 hatchlings, 2 nests at Sandy/Morse Points on 6/15

7 pairs, 1 hatchling, 6 nests at Milford Point on 6/15
13 adults, 10 hatchlings, 2 nests at Long Beach on 6/15

4 pairs, 12 adults, 11 hatchlings, 1 nest at Long Beach on 6/15

10 adults, 7 nests at Milford Point on 6/15

1 pair, 2 hatchlings at Pleasure Beach on 6/15
7 pairs, 6 hatchlings, 3 nests at Hammonasset on 6/16
1 pair, 4 hatchlings at East Broadway Milford on 6/16
1 pair, 4 hatchlings at East Broadway Milford on 6/16
4 pairs, 4 adults, 6 hatchlings at Long Beach on 6/17

2 pairs, 7 adults, 7 hatchlings, 2 nests at Long Beach on 6/18

American Oystercatcher

4 adults at Sandy/Morse Points on 6/12

1 pair, 1 nest at Long Beach on 6/12
1 pair, 1 nest at Long Beach on 6/13

2 pairs, 1 nest at Milford Point on 6/13
1 pair, 1 nest at Long Beach on 6/13

1 pair at Silver Sands State Park on 6/14

1 pair, 7 adults, 1 nest at Milford Point on 6/15

4 pairs, 1 nest at Milford Point on 6/15

5 adults at Long Beach on 6/15

1 pair at Sandy/Morse Points on 6/15

1 pair, 1 nest at Long Beach on 6/15
1 pair, 2 adults, 1 nest at Hammonasset on 6/16
1 pair, 1 nest at Long Beach on 6/17

1 pair at Long Beach on 6/18

Least Tern

2 adults at Sandy/Morse Points on 6/12

9 pairs at Long Beach on 6/12

12 pairs at Long Beach on 6/13

8 adults, 4 nests at Milford Point on 6/13

36 adults at Long Beach on 6/13

14 nests, 5 adults at Sandy Point Island on 6/14
30 adults at Milford Point on 6/15

13 adults, 2 nests at Long Beach on 6/15

30 adults, 4 nests at Milford Point on 6/15

38 adults, 12 nests at Hammonasset on 6/16

4 pairs, 6 adults, 3 nests at Long Beach on 6/18

Common Tern

1 pair, 1 nest at Salt Island on 6/13
2 adults at Menunketesuck Island on 6/13

This concludes update #11 through 6/19/17 as of 12:00 p.m.