Report created by Paul Martin, Shorebird Counter and Educator for the Shorebird Conservation and Education Project with the Saint John Naturalists Club.
Start Time: 2:30 PM
High Tide: 4:20 PM
Finish Time: 8:00 PM
Weather:
Start: 20°C, Fog, Wind 13 km/h SSW
Finish: 18°C, Fog, Wind 9 km/h S
Board Walk (2:34 PM) – Birds Observed: View eBird Checklist
Double-Crested Cormorant, Great Blue Heron, American Herring Gull, Ring-billed Gull, Semipalmated Plover, Peeps, Greater Black-backed Gull, Least Sandpiper, American Black Duck, Killdeer, Nelson’s Sparrow, Black-bellied Plover, Baird’s Sandpiper
Marsh (4:07 PM) – Birds Observed: View eBird Checklist
American Herring Gull, Baird’s Sandpiper, Least Sandpiper, Great Blue Heron, Savannah Sparrow, American Crow, Bald Eagle, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Semipalmated Plover, Lesser Yellowlegs, American Black Duck, American Goldfinch, Mallard, Black-bellied Plover, American Golden Plover
Main Beach (5:11 PM) – Birds Observed: View eBird Checklist
American Herring Gull, Semipalmated Plover, Least Sandpiper, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Double-Crested Cormorant, Ruddy Turnstone
Mudflats (6:00 PM) – Birds Observed: View eBird Checklist
Semipalmated Plover, Short-billed Dowitcher, Lesser Yellowlegs, Greater Yellowlegs, Black-bellied Plover, Common Eider, Great Blue Heron, Double-Crested Cormorant, American Goldfinch, American Herring Gull, Ring-billed Gull, Greater Black-backed Gull, Bonaparte’s Gull, Peregrine Falcon, Bald Eagle, Nelson’s Sparrow, Great Egret, Ruddy Turnstone, American Golden Plover
Notes:
Due to the fire ban, Irving Nature Park has restricted vehicle access to the parking lot outside of the gate to Taylor’s Island. Visitors were allowed to use the trails at their own risk.
The fog was heavy today, with occasional distant thunder. The beach was nearly deserted; most people were met at the board walk.
The majority of sandpipers were in the marsh, resting, feeding, and flying overhead. The number of birds on the beach has increased but not in large numbers, while the mudflats are gaining in both numbers and diversity.
People Engaged: 21
Total People on Beach: 5
Dogs Leashed: 3
Dogs Unleashed: 2
Kites: 0
Fisherman: 0
Counter/Educator: Paul Martin
The Shorebird Conservation and Education Project is supported by our funders at the NB Wildlife Trust Fund, the NB Environmental Trust Fund and Birds Canada.