Little Blue Heron Continues Plus a Semipalmated Sandpiper at Tatamy ~ July 31, 2025

Anne Coote, a resident at the Regency Boulevard retention ponds, sent me a photo of a Great Egret that was there in the morning. I had never seen one there, but I wasn't able to get over there until the early afternoon, and it had already left.

I stopped at the Trio Farms Boulevard retention ponds to see if the Common Gallinule might have returned after the vegetation around both ponds was cut down, but there was no sign of it. The only notable bird there was a Double-crested Cormorant.

I drove over to Green Pond to see if the immature Little Blue Heron was still there. When I got there, a construction crew had just finished paving the path along the golf course edge that used to be gravel. The continuing Great Egret was in the first pond next to Farmersville Road. I walked back the newly paved path to the southeast pond and found the Little Blue Heron there with 2 Green Herons.

The immature Little Blue Heron.

The flooded cornfield along Green Pond Road held 4 Least Sandpipers, a Lesser Yellowlegs, and a Killdeer.

The Tatamy Exit retention pond held a Semipalmated Sandpiper, 2 Pectoral Sandpipers, one Spotted and one Solitary Sandpiper, a Lesser Yellowlegs, 2 Killdeer, a Great Blue Heron, and the continuing Great Egret.

Semipalmated Sandpiper

Pectoral Sandpiper

Great Egret

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