Wednesday, August 3rd
Spent an hour this morning at Bowditch Point Park on Ft Myers Beach just to do some birding. Part of the beach is roped off due to a dredging project, but a good sampling of peeps were still in-hand.
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The Great Away heading out into the Gulf for some grouper fishing
My son was once a mate on this vessel. |
Started to visit with a pair of Gray Kingbirds on the wires just outside of the park. On the beach were three large concentrations of resting sandpipers. It appears that hundreds of
Western Sandpipers had arrived along with a few
FOS Piping Plovers. Among these birds were also many
Wilson's Plovers, Semipalmated Plovers, Sanderlings, Ruddy Turnstones and a lone Snowy Plovers.
Other beach birds present included
Least Terns. Laughing Gulls, Sandwich Terns, Royal Terns, a few Brown Pelicans, a pair of Marbled Godwits, Short-billed Dowitchers and Willets. The
White-morphed Reddish Egret with the tracking radio was also here today.
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| Black-bellied Plover |
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| White-Morphed Reddish Egret |
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| FOS Piping Plover |
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| Piping Plover |
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| Least Tern |
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| Short-billed Dowitcher |
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| Snowy Plover |
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| Semipalmated Plover |
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| Wilson's Plover |
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| Western Sandpiper |
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| Sanderling |
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| Banded Piping Plover |
The park also has a Gopher Tortoise refuge.
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