Hi Jim
  Sorry if this has all ready been asked....what part of the Delta did
you see these?
     Some North and the rest from the bridge? I gathered there are
places we can't access.   Thank You  Roo

On 8/13/12, Jim Mead <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I went to Delta Park yesterday morning from 6:25 a.m. until 8:08 a.m.
> There was a decent number of shorebirds with highlights being 1
> Sanderling & 1 Short-billed Dowitcher. I have a feeling that if I'd stayed
> longer, more shorebirds may have dropped in. For example: I had
> counted a total of 29 Least Sandpipers and then a while later a new
> group flew in and my number went up to 69 Least Sandpipers. My
> complete list:
>
> Delta Park, Colchester, Chittenden, US-VT
> Aug 12, 2012 6:25 AM - 8:08 AM
> Protocol: Traveling
> 0.5 mile(s)
> 36 species
>
> Canada Goose  3
> Wood Duck  14
> Mallard  2
> Double-crested Cormorant  2
> Great Blue Heron  5
> Great Egret  15     all on the north end of Delta Park
> Green Heron  2
> Osprey  1
> Semipalmated Plover  11
> Spotted Sandpiper  1
> Greater Yellowlegs  2
> Sanderling  1
> Semipalmated Sandpiper  3
> Least Sandpiper  69
> White-rumped Sandpiper  2
> Short-billed Dowitcher  1
> Bonaparte's Gull  28
> Ring-billed Gull  7
> Herring Gull  3
> Great Black-backed Gull  1
> Caspian Tern  12
> Common Tern  19
> Belted Kingfisher  2
> Downy Woodpecker  1
> Pileated Woodpecker  1
> American Crow  6
> Barn Swallow  5
> Black-capped Chickadee  7
> Tufted Titmouse  2
> White-breasted Nuthatch  1
> Carolina Wren  1
> Cedar Waxwing  5
> Song Sparrow  3
> Northern Cardinal  1
> Red-winged Blackbird  11
> American Goldfinch  2
>
> Enjoy Birds,
>
> Jim Mead
>