This is the fifth regular weekly update by the Audubon Alliance for Coastal Waterbirds (AAfCW) for the 2018 season. Today's update includes reports of Piping Plover, American Oystercatcher, Least Tern and Common Tern from May 28 through 12:00pm on June 4 with sightings of birds by volunteers and staff spanning the period.
Informational updates:
We now have our first Piping Plover hatchlings of 2018! This will pick up very rapidly now with many young emerging in the next couple of weeks across all of Connecticut. Please monitor as much as you can in this critical time. There is no more important point of the year as this is when the young birds are the most vulnerable. Please exercise caution around the little ones on the beach and advise any beachgoers the same in a positive, educational and polite way.
While we will not see young terns for a few weeks, we do have some beginning to nest. Please remember that we do not need data such as egg counts or even nest or pair counts on these birds. We would prefer caution and care, staying by the water, and watching them from afar, not flushing them off nests. If they are calling and dive bombing you then you are too close and should move out of the area. If you see groups feeding in the Sound or a marsh, or flying around the beach from afar, counting them off quickly by fives and tens can get you a good estimate. These birds are disturbed and flushed so often by everything from predators to people that it is difficult for them to be successful, so ensuring we do not do that will help them tremendously.
Thank you all for your efforts!
Survey and monitoring updates:
Piping Plover
5 pairs, 4 adults, 6 nests at Bluff Point on 5/28
4 pairs, 4 nests at Mumford Cove on 5/28
1 pair, 1 nest at Griswold Point on 5/28
6 pairs, 1 adult, 5 nests at Bluff Point on 5/28
6 pairs, 5 nests at Sandy/Morse Points on 5/28
9 pairs, 2 adults, 9 nests at Long Beach on 5/29
2 pairs, 2 nests at Griswold Point on 5/29
9 pairs, 5 adults, 10 nests at Long Beach on 5/29
2 pairs, 1 adult, 2 nests at Silver Sands State Park on 5/29
10 pairs, 3 adults, 7 nests at Long Beach on 5/29
1 adult, 1 nest at Waterford Town Beach on 5/30
2 pairs, 2 nests at Silver Sands State Park on 5/30
7 adults, 3 nests at Milford Point on 5/30
1 pair, 1 nest at Griswold Point on 5/30
14 pairs, 13 nests at Long Beach on 5/30
7 adults, 6 nests at Milford Point on 5/30
3 pairs, 8 adults, 8 nests at Long Beach on 5/30
2 pairs, 4 adults, 2 nests at Silver Sands State Park on 5/30
2 pairs, 2 nests at Silver Sands State Park on 5/31
6 pairs, 6 nests at Milford Point on 5/31
20 adults, 12 nests at Long Beach on 5/31
2 pairs, 8 adults, 5 nests at Sandy/Morse Points on 5/31
25 adults, 8 nests at Long Beach on 5/31
1 pair, 1 nest at Peck Ave. West Haven on 6/1
4 pairs, 8 adults, 8 nests at Long Beach on 6/1
2 pairs, 2 nests at Silver Sands State Park on 6/1
2 adults, 2 nests at Silver Sands State Park on 6/3
2 adults, 1 nest at Silver Sands State Park on 6/3
7 pairs, 6 nests, 4 hatchlings at Sandy/Morse Points on 6/3
5 pairs, 1 adult, 4 nests, 6 hatchlings at Milford Point on 6/3
5 pairs, 5 adults, 10 nests at Long Beach on 6/3
1 pair, 1 nest at East Broadway Milford on 6/3
American Oystercatcher
2 pairs, 1 nest at Bluff Point on 5/28
1 pair at Griswold Point on 5/28
3 adults at Bluff Point on 5/28
2 pairs, 1 adult, 1 nest at Sandy/Morse Points on 5/28
1 pair at Long Beach on 5/29
1 pair, 1 nest at Branford Harbor on 5/29
1 pair, 1 adult, 1 nest at Sandy/Morse Points on 5/29
1 pair at Griswold Point on 5/29
1 pair at Green Island on 5/29
1 pair at Farm River on 5/29
1 adult at Kelsey Island on 5/29
1 pair, 4 adults at Darrow Rocks on 5/29
1 pair at Long Beach on 5/29
1 pair, 1 adult, 1 nest at Umbrella Island on 5/29
5 adults, 4 nests at Sandy/Morse Points on 5/29
1 pair at Pleasure Beach on 5/29
1 pair at Quinnipeag Rocks on 5/30
4 pairs, 3 nests at Waterford Town Beach on 5/30
1 pair at Lewis Island on 5/30
1 pair at House Chimney Island on 5/30
1 adult at Governor Island on 5/30
1 pair at East Stooping Bush Island on 5/30
1 pair at Smith Island on 5/30
3 pairs, 1 adult, 1 nest at Milford Point on 5/30
1 pair, 1 nest at Long Beach on 5/30
1 pair, 1 nest at Milford Point on 5/30
2 adults at Long Beach on 5/30
2 pairs, 1 adult, 1 nest at Sandy/Morse Points on 5/31
3 pairs, 2 adults, 2 nests at Milford Point on 5/31
2 pairs, 1 nest at Long Beach on 5/31
1 pair, 1 adult at Long Beach on 5/31
1 pair, 1 nest at Long Beach on 6/1
1 pair at Long Beach Island on 6/3
2 adults at Silver Sands State Park on 6/3
2 pairs, 1 nest at Sandy/Morse Points on 6/3
2 pairs, 11 adults, 1 nest at Milford Point on 6/3
1 pair at Long Beach on 6/3
Least Tern
24 adults, 9 nests at Bluff Point on 5/28
10 adults, 1 nest at Mumford Cove on 5/28
6 pairs, 8 adults at Bluff Point on 5/28
6 adults at Sandy/Morse Points on 5/28
6 adults at Long Beach on 5/29
2 pairs, 3 adults at Long Beach on 5/29
1 adult at Sandy/Morse Points on 5/29
6 pairs at Griswold Point on 5/30
1 adult at Milford Point on 5/30
8 pairs, 2 nests at Long Beach on 5/30
12 adults, 4 nests at Sandy/Morse Points on 5/31
2 pairs, 5 adults at Long Beach on 5/31
6 adults at Long Beach on 6/1
10 adults at Sandy/Morse Points on 6/3
2 adults at Milford Point on 6/3
14 adults at Long Beach on 6/3
Common Tern
4 adults at Umbrella Island on 5/29
32 pairs, 16 nests at Green Island on 5/29
4 adults at Kelsey Island on 5/29
2 pairs at Darrow Rocks on 5/29
8 adults at Thimble Islands on 5/30
1 adult at Silver Sands State Park on 5/30
This concludes update #5 through 6/4/18 as of 7:30 p.m.
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