AAfCW 2017 Volunteer Update #17

This is the seventeenth 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 12:00 p.m. on July 31 with sightings of birds by volunteers and staff since the previous update on July 24.

Informational updates:

Surveys by volunteers and staff were reduced over the past week due to various inclement weather conditions. We continue to have hatchlings at multiple locations, so please do keep monitoring throughout the period while watching for additional banded or flagged birds migrating through the region. Next week's update will come midweek instead of Monday. Thank you all for your invaluable efforts!

Survey and monitoring updates:

Piping Plover

4 adults, 2 hatchlings, 8 juveniles at Long Beach on 7/25

1 pair at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/25

2 adults, 1 hatchling, 3 fledglings at Milford Point on 7/25
1 adult, 2 hatchlings at Silver Sands State Park on 7/25
1 pair, 2 adults, 6 hatchlings, 3 juveniles at Bluff Point on 7/25
1 adult, 1 hatchling at Mumford Cove on 7/25
4 adults, 5 hatchlings at Hammonasset on 7/26
1 pair, 2 hatchlings, 3 fledglings, 3 juveniles at Long Beach on 7/26
1 pair, 1 nest at Short Beach on 7/26
2 adults at Long Beach on 7/26
1 pair, 1 adult, 2 hatchlings, 3 fledglings at Long Beach on 7/26

2 adults, 2 hatchlings at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/27
2 juveniles at Griswold Point on 7/27
1 pair, 2 adults at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/27
4 adults, 5 hatchlings, 7 fledglings at Milford Point on 7/27
1 pair, 4 adults, 4 hatchlings, 3 fledglings at Hammonasset on 7/28
9 adults/juveniles at Bluff Point on 7/28

2 adults, 2 hatchlings, 4 fledglings, 2 juveniles at Bluff Point on 7/28

2 pairs, 1 adult, 1 hatchling, 2 juveniles at Long Beach on 7/28

10 adults, 1 hatchling, 3 juveniles at Milford Point on 7/29
1 pair, 5 fledglings at Bluff Point on 7/29

1 adult, 2 juveniles at Long Beach on 7/30

2 adults, 2 hatchlings, 2 fledglings, 2 juveniles at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/30

1 adult, 2 hatchlings at Silver Sands State Park on 7/30

American Oystercatcher

1 adult at Long Beach on 7/24
3 pairs at Milford Point on 7/25

22 adults at Milford Point on 7/25

1 adult at Silver Sands State Park on 7/25
1 pair, 1 adult at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/25

1 pair at Long Beach Island on 7/26
3 adults at White Rock on 7/26
6 pairs, 2 adults, 2 hatchlings, 6 juveniles at Cockenoe Island on 7/26
1 adult at Griswold Point on 7/27

3 pairs, 33 adults at Milford Point on 7/27

1 adult at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/27
3 pairs, 25 adults at Milford Point on 7/27

2 adults at Bluff Point on 7/28
1 pair at South Brother on 7/28
1 pair, 1 juvenile at Quinnipeag Rocks on 7/29

25 adults at Milford Point on 7/29
1 pair, 1 adult, 1 hatchling at Waterford Town Beach on 7/29

Least Tern

1 pair, 1 nest at Milford Point on 7/25

28 adults, 1 juvenile at Long Beach on 7/25

2 adults at Milford Point on 7/25
46 adults, 3 hatchlings, 5 fledglings at Mumford Cove on 7/25

60 adults, 2 juveniles at Long Beach on 7/26
12 adults at Long Beach on 7/26
3 adults at Milford Point on 7/27
2 pairs, 1 nest at Milford Point on 7/27
16 adults, 2 fledglings at Griswold Point on 7/27
23 adults, 1 nest at Harkness Memorial State Park on 7/27

10 adults at Long Beach on 7/28
16 adults at Hammonasset on 7/28
1 pair at Bluff Point on 7/29

1 pair, 1 nest at Milford Point on 7/29

26 adults, 6 juveniles at Long Beach on 7/30

Common Tern

18 adults, 1 juvenile at Long Beach on 7/24
27 adults at Milford Point on 7/25
4 adults at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/25

45 adults at Milford Point on 7/25
5 adults, 3 juveniles at Silver Sands State Park on 7/25
16 adults at Long Beach on 7/26
22 adults at Hammonasset on 7/26
45 adults, 15 juveniles at Milford Point on 7/27
8 adults at Griswold Point on 7/27
3 adults at Ram Island on 7/27
46 adults, 21 fledglings at Griswold Island on 7/28

2 adults, 2 juveniles at Bluff Point on 7/28

62 adults, 6 juveniles at Milford Point on 7/29
36 adults at Hammonasset on 7/29

27 adults, 6 juveniles at Long Beach on 7/30
13 adults at Sandy/Morse Points on 7/30

This concludes update #17 through 7/31/17 as of 5:00 p.m.