This Red-throated Loon threw me for a bit of a loop. The white feathers on flanks was so high up it had me thinking Acrtic loon. However nothing else about the bird recalls this vagrant species. So Red-throated it is.
Piping Plovers complete with jewelry were present in numbers.
My obligatory stop at Oleander Gardens Cemetery on the way home yielded this Northern Rough-winged Swallow.
Later I was minding my own business working in my home office and Sherry called with news of Bobolinks at Ft. Fisher. So naturally I jammed down there and picked up this elusive bird.
Bobolink
Black-necked Stilt
Another Bobolink
Red-necked Phalaropes!! Don't ask me where these birds were as the access is tricky and they are probably gone now.
If you can believe it that was all a quick lunch break then it was back to work only to get a call from Sherry later in the afternoon that two Hudsonian Godwits were hanging on the spit. Well I was finished with my conference calls for the day so I jammed back down.
Royal Terns doing their bit to keep the species alive.
Lesser Yellowlegs
Semi-palmated Sandpiper
Common Tern - bill more dainty than Forster's and more deeply red. You can almost see a carpal bar too.
Red Knot
There was thousands of shorebirds but the Hudsonian Godwits were not to be seen. Would have been a lifer for me. At least I still have something to live for.
Cheers.
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