Charlestown Breachway 8/6/14

Today (8/6/14) I went to Charlestown Breachway, Charlestown, Rhode Island to look for shorebirds and terns. The breachway has mud flats on them that attract shorebirds and terns during low tide.

Here's a picture of what it looks like.

SPECIES SEEN:
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Osprey
Black-bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Piping Plover
Greater Yellowlegs
Willet
Least Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Least Tern
Common Tern
Fish Crow
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Gray Catbird
Cedar Waxwing
Saltmarsh Sparrow
Song Sparrow

When we first started out we saw a Willet, a Cedar Waxwing, a Double-crested Cormorant, and Great and Snowy Egret. When we crossed the canal entering the tidal flats we saw a Piping Plover

 Right after that in the same area I saw two Least Sandpipers.

After a little bit the activity started to pick up and lots of Semipalmated Plovers were seen.

Soon after, the Semipalmated Sandpipers came along.

I also looked at the flock of terns. There were mainly Common Terns, but there were a few Least Terns too.

Here is a Common Tern.

Here is a Least Tern.

There were also some Willets.

Nearby the Willet, there was a Greater Yellowlegs.

Also close by were two Black-bellied Plovers.

This Herring Gull nearby was making fun of me. "Shut up gull".

Later on the flats another Piping Plover appeared.

Here is a better Least Sandpiper shot.

I also got a better Semipalmated Plover shot.

And that ended a great day of birding.

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