Wednesday November 11th
Haven't done very much birding lately, being stuck at home. Mostly just keeping an eye on the yard. But with Tropical Storm Eta, or sometimes as a Hurricane Eta, lingering in the Gulf of Mexico there maybe an opportunity to encounter some pelagic birds being blown toward shore.
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| An Aberrant Laughing Gull |
Ended up checking on the action on the Sanibel Causeway Islands. While still under a Tropical Storm Warming, a Tornado watch and a Storm Surge watch, expected to find sea birds sheltering on the bay side of the islands, because the high winds and a high surf were crashing the gulf side.
Lots' of Laughing Gulls, Royal Terns, Sandwich Terns, some Common Terns, Ruddy Turnstones, Willets, Sanderlings, Brown Pelicans, Cormorants, plus Semipalmated Sandpipers, a Black Skimmer, a FOS Dunlin, Black bellied Plover and a Snowy Plover. The only pelagic was a single Magnificent Frigatebird.
Snowy Plover
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| Black-bellied Plover |
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| Willet |
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| Royal Terns |
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| Common Tern |
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