AAfCW 2014 Volunteer Update #9

This is the ninth 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 May 27 through 4:00 p.m. on June 2 with sightings of birds by volunteers and staff spanning that period.

Informational updates:

Please remember to email eholland@audubon.org for parking passes to Sandy/Morse Points if you are in need and to let us know if you have any access problems to any of your beaches. We are still finding more nests of all four of our focal species at the moment and assisting with erecting fencing, exclosures and signage.

As many of you have already done please email rsuzf@hotmail.com and Laura.Saucier@ct.gov along with us at ctwaterbirds@gmail.com to immediately alert us to any nests you find of Piping Plovers and American Oystercatchers as well as Least Terns and Common Terns. There will be more terns nesting soon and we hope to protect them as quickly as possible.

If you have not been sending us data thus far or are unable to monitor but scheduled please submit data and information as soon as possible or let us know if you cannot volunteer. Thank you all for your hard work and terrific finds!

Survey and monitoring updates:

Piping Plover

1 adult, 1 nest at Shell Avenue Milford on 5/27
1 pair, 1 nest at Short Beach on 5/27
2 pairs, 1 adult, 4 hatchlings, 2 nests at Milford Point on 5/27
2 pairs, 4 hatchlings at Harkness Memorial State Park on 5/27

8 adults, 4 hatchlings at Sandy/Morse Points on 5/27

3 adults at Mumford Cove on 5/27

1 adult, 1 nest at Short Beach on 5/28

7 adults, 4 hatchlings at Griswold Point on 5/28

3 pairs, 1 adult at Bluff Point on 5/28

2 pairs, 2 adults, 3 nests at Long Beach on 5/28

1 pair, 1 nest at Shell Avenue Milford on 5/29
8 pairs, 8 hatchlings, 6 nests at Milford Point on 5/29
1 nest at Shell Avenue Milford on 5/29
6 pairs, 7 adults, 8 hatchlings at Sandy/Morse Points on 5/29
1 pair, 1 nest at Shell Avenue Milford on 5/29
1 pair, 1 nest at Shell Avenue Milford on 5/30
5 pairs, 6 hatchlings, 3 nests at Milford Point on 5/30
1 pair, 1 nest at Short Beach on 5/30
3 pairs, 1 adult, 4 nests at Long Beach on 5/30

8 adults, 3 nests at Long Beach on 5/30

1 pair, 11 adults, 4 hatchlings, 3 nests at Griswold Point on 5/31
3 adults, 2 nests at Long Beach on 5/31
2 pairs, 1 nest at Pleasure Beach on 5/31

5 pairs, 5 hatchlings, 2 nests at Sandy/Morse Points on 5/31

1 pair, 1 nest at Long Beach on 5/31

1 adult, 1 nest at Long Beach on 6/1

2 pairs, 1 adult, 1 nest at Long Beach on 6/2

American Oystercatcher
4 pairs, 4 hatchlings, 4 nests at Cockenoe Island on 5/26
2 pairs at Sandy/Morse Points on 5/27
1 pair, 1 adult at Harkness Memorial State Park on 5/27
1 pair at Chimon Island on 5/27
1 pair at Long Beach Island on 5/27

2 pairs, 1 nest at Mumford Cove on 5/27

1 adult at Rocky Island on 5/27

5 pairs, 2 nests at Menunketesuck Island on 5/28

8 adults at Long Beach on 5/28

1 pair at Fish Islands on 5/29
1 adult at Great Captain's Island on 5/29
6 adults, 2 nests at Milford Point on 5/29
2 pairs at Sandy/Morse Points on 5/30
1 pair at Kelsey Island on 5/30
1 adult at Umbrella Rocks on 5/30
1 adult at Green Island on 5/30
2 pairs, 2 nests at Milford Point on 5/30
1 pair at Long Beach on 5/30
1 pair at Long Beach on 5/30

2 pairs, 10 adults at Sandy/Morse Points on 5/31

3 adults at Griswold Point on 5/31
1 pair at Long Beach on 5/31

2 adults at Long Beach on 5/31

1 pair at Sandy/Morse Points on 6/1

1 pair at Long Beach on 6/1

2 adults at Long Beach on 6/2

Least Tern

10 adults at Griswold Point on 5/27
5 adults at Harkness Memorial State Park on 5/27

8 adults, 2 nests at Sandy/Morse Points on 5/27

7 pairs at Mumford Cove on 5/27

4 adults at Shell Avenue Milford on 5/28
1 pair, 4 adults at Menunketesuck Island on 5/28
3 pairs, 5 adults at Bluff Point on 5/28

4 pairs, 5 adults at Long Beach on 5/28

40 adults at Milford Point on 5/29
4 adults at Silver Sands State Park on 5/29
15 adults at Silver Sands State Park on 5/29
2 pairs, 6 adults at Short Beach on 5/29
10 pairs, 15 adults at Long Beach on 5/30
9 adults at Sasco Hill Beach on 5/31
7 adults at Griswold Point on 5/31
11 pairs, 4 adults at Long Beach on 5/31
7 pairs, 2 adults, 4 nests at Pleasure Beach on 5/31

30 adults at Sandy/Morse Points on 5/31

3 pairs, 11 adults at Long Beach on 5/31

26 adults at Long Beach on 6/1

3 pairs, 7 adults at Long Beach on 6/2

Common Tern

6 adults at Compo Beach on 5/27
3 adults at Short Beach on 5/27
6 adults at Silver Sands State Park on 5/28
10 adults at Sandy/Morse Points on 5/29
10 adults at Milford Point on 5/29
1 pair at Silver Sands State Park on 5/29
18 adults at Green Island on 5/30
1 adult at Silver Sands State Park on 5/30
12 adults at Milford Point on 5/30
5 adults at Long Beach on 5/30

1 pair at Long Beach on 5/30

2 adults at Griswold Point on 5/31

6 adults at Sandy/Morse Points on 5/31

15 adults at Sandy/Morse Points on 6/1

1 pair at Long Beach on 6/1

This concludes update #9 through 6/2/14 as of 5:00 p.m.