Comment on migration season

["Robert C. Perkins" <rperkins@infi.net>]

     Some birds are on the move.  I was in northeastern Florida during 
the weekend and stopped at Sawpit Pond on Big Talbot Island (Duval 
County).  In addition to the usual residents, I found short-billed 
dowitchers in breeding plumage, least sandpipers, and--surprise, 
surprise--Wilson's phalaropes in basic plumage.
     On the other hand, I had planned to spend time sorting out terns, 
but the only terns that I saw were royals and the gulls, with the 
exception of one suspicious juvenile, were all laughing gulls.  So, 
while migration has begun, no general movement is underway.

Bob
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Robert C. Perkins, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Methodist College, Fayetteville, NC 28311
910-630-7037     rperkins@methodist.edu