AAfCW 2016 Volunteer Update #4

This is the fourth weekly update by the Audubon Alliance for Coastal Waterbirds (AAfCW) for the 2016 season. Today's update includes reports of Piping Plover and American Oystercatcher from April 11 through 12:00 p.m. on April 19 with sightings of birds by volunteers and staff.

Informational updates:

A huge thanks to all who joined us for fencing operations yesterday at Long Beach and last Friday at Bluff Point. For those new monitors who attended beach training this past Sunday please email us if you would still like additional training or assistance from our staff. This should be a terrific week of weather as both Piping Plovers and American Oystercatchers begin the nesting season. Please keep reporting all the details you can on these birds along with any disturbances or other pertinent information. Please remember to email Laura.Saucier@ct.gov and rsuzf@hotmail.com along with us if you find any new nests or see any banded or flagged Piping Plovers.

Least Terns and Common Terns, two more of our focal species, typically return right near May 1, so we should be seeing them in a couple weeks. Please keep in mind some of the sites mentioned in these reports are monitored by CT DEEP or AAfCW staff only and are not open for public monitoring. Good birding to you!

Survey and monitoring updates:

Piping Plover
1 adult at Peck Ave. West Haven on 4/11
4 pairs, 2 adults at Bluff Point on 4/11
2 pairs, 5 adults at Griswold Point on 4/11
3 pairs, 2 adults at Sandy/Morse Points on 4/11
1 pair at Harkness Memorial State Park on 4/13
6 pairs, 1 adult at Sandy/Morse Points on 4/13
1 pair, 7 adults at Milford Point on 4/13
2 pairs, 4 adults at Sandy/Morse Points on 4/13
1 pair at Pleasure Beach on 4/14
7 pairs at Milford Point on 4/14
3 pairs, 1 adult at Long Beach on 4/14
1 pair, 2 adults at Long Beach on 4/14
1 pair, 2 adults at Sandy/Morse Points on 4/14
6 pairs at Milford Point on 4/14
1 pair at Peck Ave. West Haven on 4/15
3 pairs, 3 adults at Griswold Point on 4/15
3 pairs at Sandy/Morse Points on 4/15
6 adults at Sandy/Morse Points on 4/15
7 pairs at Milford Point on 4/16
4 pairs, 2 adults at Hammonasset on 4/16
1 pair, 1 adult at Long Beach on 4/16
5 pairs, 2 adults at Sandy/Morse Points on 4/17
8 pairs at Sandy/Morse Points on 4/17
4 pairs at Long Beach on 4/17
1 adult at Silver Sands State Park on 4/18
4 pairs at Long Beach on 4/18
1 pair, 1 adult at Pleasure Beach on 4/18
4 pairs at Long Beach on 4/18
3 pairs, 2 adults at Sandy/Morse Points on 4/18

American Oystercatcher
2 adults at Peck Ave. West Haven on 4/11
2 pairs at Sandy/Morse Points on 4/11
2 pairs at Bluff Point on 4/11
2 adults at Griswold Point on 4/11
2 pairs, 1 adult at Sandy/Morse Points on 4/11
1 adult at Pleasure Beach on 4/12
2 pairs at Sandy/Morse Points on 4/13
1 adult at Sandy/Morse Points on 4/13
2 pairs, 3 adults at Milford Point on 4/13
1 pair at Sandy/Morse Points on 4/13
1 adult at Pleasure Beach on 4/14
3 pairs at Milford Point on 4/14
1 pair, 1 adult at Long Beach on 4/14
1 adult at Short Beach on 4/14
1 pair at Long Beach on 4/14
1 pair at Sandy/Morse Points on 4/14

2 pairs at Milford Point on 4/14

1 pair at Sasco Hill Beach on 4/15
1 pair at Bluff Point on 4/15
2 adults at Griswold Point on 4/15
2 pairs at Sandy/Morse Points on 4/15
2 adults at Shore Rock on 4/15
2 adults at Sandy/Morse Points on 4/15
3 pairs at Hammonasset on 4/16
3 pairs at Milford Point on 4/16
2 pairs at Sandy/Morse Points on 4/17
2 pairs, 1 adult at Sandy/Morse Points on 4/17
1 pair at Long Beach on 4/17
1 pair, 1 adult at Long Beach on 4/18
1 pair, 1 adult at Long Beach on 4/18
3 pairs at Milford Point on 4/18
2 pairs, 1 adult at Sandy/Morse Points on 4/18

This concludes update #4 through 04/19/16 as of 1:00 p.m.

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