I checked out the Sugar House Pond today. With the past two months of no rain and 100 degree weather, water is drying up fast on this 40 acre effluent pond and it's shorebird season so there was a lot to see. I needed to catch my bearings after popping up on the berm and being overwhelmed by thousands of shorebirds, but it didn't take me long to pick out a Willet. There were at least five of these hard to find for Hidalgo County shorebirds.
A bit later I found my bird of the day, my fourth ever Marbled Godwit for Hidalgo County.
Then it was just a matter of scoping over the large flocks. I picked out ten Semipalmated Plovers.
A lone Snowy Plover was a bird closer.
But the Black-bellied Plover was nearly a quarter mile away on the opposite side of the pond.
The rest of the nineteen species of shorebirds were more common species like this flock of Long-billed Dowitchers.
There were also hundreds of Stilt Sandpipers but I didn't get much in the way of photos today so here's one from ten days ago.
I only managed to find one Pectoral Sandpiper. Here it is with a Lesser Yellowlegs and a couple of Wilson's Phalaropes.
It's about time to find a mega rare so I need to get back out there again this week. In the mean time I will search though these photos and see if I missed anything.
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