Hollo Road Pond ~ September 7, 2024

I checked out the Hollo Road retention pond before the rain showers arrived. There was a Blue-winged Teal with 4 Green-winged Teal in the pond.

Blue-winged Teal

Green-winged Teal

I got a photo showing the big size difference between the Blue-winged Teal and the surrounding Mallards. The light area near the base of the bill is also noticeable.

A Blue-winged Teal flanked by two Mallards.

I then noticed a group of very light-colored shorebirds, which turned out to be 14 Semipalmated Sandpipers, a surprisingly high number for our area.

All 14 Semipalmated Sandpipers.

Thirteen of the 14 Semipalmated Sandpipers.

Nine of the 14 Semipalmated Sandpipers.

Another group of 21 Least Sandpipers plus 2 Lesser Yellowlegs were also there.

Lesser Yellowlegs

A short walk along the Palmer Bikeway until the showers began produced a Wood Duck, a Common Merganser, an Eastern Wood-Pewee, a Red-eyed Vireo, a Black-and-white Warbler, and 5 American Redstarts.

Common Merganser

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