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Wednesday, August 31, 2022

AAfCW 2022 Field Update #13

This is the final field update for the AAfCW in 2022 with data through August 31. Volunteer monitoring has now concluded for the 2022 season. Staff monitoring will continue into the winter as shorebirds, terns, and waders continue to move through Connecticut. Staff will also continue to remove string fencing, signage, and exclosures from our beaches over the next couple of weeks. As far as we know, all fledged birds have reached juvenile stage and/or departed Connecticut.

If you have any data remaining for the 2022 field season, please enter it as soon as you can. If you would like, you can keep sharing sightings with us in the offseason via eBird. Wherever you visit on your own time, eBird can be a great tool, and you can provide us with your checklist via the share function to this email address (ctwaterbirds@gmail.com). You may also continue to report and banded and/or flagged individuals of any shorebird, tern, or wader species via direct email to us and CT DEEP.  Please bear in mind some reports of Piping Plovers in large groups are undoubtedly Semipalmated Plovers in migration, or possibly Sanderling, Semipalmated Sandpiper, and other shorebirds.

As previously mentioned, we will continue to share applicable events and waterbird conservation-related volunteer efforts from our organizations and partners throughout the remainder of the year. Keep an eye on our blog and social media for more photos and videos from this season, and watch for emails about an AAfCW volunteer Zoom event including results from this season's monitoring. Thank you all so much for your efforts, and we will keep in touch! We hope to have all of you joining us again in 2023, too.

Species

Date

Location

Pairs

Adults

Juveniles

AMOY

August 23

Compo Beach

1

0

0

AMOY

August 24

Milford Point

0

59

1

AMOY

August 24

Sandy/Morse Points


1


AMOY

August 25

Sandy/Morse Points

2

1

1

AMOY

August 25

Griswold Point

0

1


AMOY

August 27

Sandy/Morse Points

1

1

0

AMOY

August 29

Milford Point

0

36

0

AMOY

August 30

Milford Point

0

3

0

AMOY

August 31

Milford Point

0

1

0

AMOY

August 31

Compo Beach

1

0

0







LETE

August 25

Griswold Point

0

4


LETE

August 25

Sandy/Morse Points

0

2

2

LETE

August 25

Griswold Point


120


LETE

August 27

Sandy/Morse Points

0

1

1

LETE

August 27

Sandy/Morse Points

0

4

0







PIPL

August 24

Sandy/Morse Points


1


PIPL

August 25

Sandy/Morse Points

0

0

2

PIPL

August 25

Griswold Point

0

1


PIPL

August 27

Griswold Point

0

1


PIPL

August 27

Sandy/Morse Points

0

2

0


Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Got an Itch?

Here's one of our last Piping Plover hatchlings of the 2022 season with an itch in July...

Thankfully, it was scratched, and this bird - along with a sibling - successfully fledged and headed south for the season. See you next year?

Thursday, August 25, 2022

AAfCW 2022 Field Update #12

This is the twelfth field update for the AAfCW in 2022 with data through August 24. It seems we may have finally beaten the worst of the heat for the season, and rainy days have been few and far between. An occasional survey was missed due to the extreme heat, but the remaining week in the field before we wrap up volunteer monitoring for 2022 should be mostly good. Our birds are exiting the region as our final fledglings and juveniles prepare to leave Connecticut. Adults of all four species can still be found, too, with some staging in terrific numbers along the coast.

Please continue to report and banded and/or flagged individuals of any species both in your data reports and emailed directly to CT DEEP. If you have a unique or superb sighting of another long-legged wader, tern, or shorebird, we'd love to hear about that, too. Anyone who spends their own time visiting other great migratory hotspots is free to enter their data if the location is found in the dropdown menus of our electronic form, or to share an eBird checklist with our email address via the share function. You can eBird like this with us through the fall and winter if you'd like, too, and we will tally your additional volunteer hours and sightings.

Thanks so much to everyone who has assisted in removing string fencing and signage! We will continue these efforts, and let you know about more opportunities to help soon. There may be waterbird conservation-related volunteer efforts from our organizations and partners throughout the remainder of the year, and we will share applicable events. Finally, we will share more photos and videos taken this season on our blog and social media as well.

Species

Date

Location

Paids

Adults

Fledglings

Juveniles

AMOY

August 7

Branford Harbor

0

1

0

0

AMOY

August 9

Milford Point

0

6

0

0

AMOY

August 9

Compo Beach

1

2

0

0

AMOY

August 10

Sandy/Morse Points

1

0

0

2

AMOY

August 11

Milford Point

0

50

0

5

AMOY

August 12

Sandy/Morse Points

0

5

0

0

AMOY

August 13

Griswold Point


1



AMOY

August 14

Sandy/Morse Points

1

1

0

2

AMOY

August 16

Milford Point

0

29

0

0

AMOY

August 16

Compo Beach

1


0

0

AMOY

August 19

Bluff Point

1




AMOY

August 19

Sandy/Morse Points

2



3

AMOY

August 22

Milford Point

0

20

0

0

AMOY

August 23

Bluff Point

1











COTE

August 10

Sandy/Morse Points

0

25

0

75

COTE

August 10

Milford Point


12



COTE

August 11

Milford Point

0

300

0

25

COTE

August 12

Sandy/Morse Points

0

65

0

0

COTE

August 14

Sandy/Morse Points


740

0


COTE

August 18

Griswold Point

0

155



COTE

August 19

Bluff Point


8



COTE

August 19

Harkness Memorial State Park


200



COTE

August 21

Griswold Point


150










LETE

August 9

Milford Point

0

4

0

0

LETE

August 10

Sandy/Morse Points

0

12

0

38

LETE

August 10

Milford Point


3


1

LETE

August 10

Milford Point

0

5

0

0

LETE

August 11

Milford Point

2

9

0

7

LETE

August 11

Sandy/Morse Points


100



LETE

August 12

Sandy/Morse Points

0

80

24

6

LETE

August 14

Sandy/Morse Points


18

13


LETE

August 18

Sandy/Morse Points


3


1

LETE

August 18

Griswold Point


2



LETE

August 19

Bluff Point


1



LETE

August 19

Griswold Point


200



LETE

August 19

Sandy/Morse Points


1



LETE

August 21

Griswold Point


5










PIPL

August 8

Milford Point

0

2

0

1

PIPL

August 10

Sandy/Morse Points

0

0

0

5

PIPL

August 10

Long Beach

0

1

0

1

PIPL

August 10

Milford Point


1


8

PIPL

August 10

Milford Point

0

1

0

1

PIPL

August 11

Milford Point

0

1

0

11

PIPL

August 11

Sandy/Morse Points


2

3


PIPL

August 12

Sandy/Morse Points

0

1

1

3

PIPL

August 12

Milford Point


1


6

PIPL

August 14

Sandy/Morse Points

0

0

0

6

PIPL

August 18

Griswold Point

0

1



PIPL

August 19

Griswold Point

1

0



PIPL

August 19

Sandy/Morse Points


1


2

PIPL

August 21

Griswold Point


1