A walk with Ed Becher today from the coast guard station through the center
median, down to the shoreline and along the inlet produced a nice selection
of birds and a lifer mammal in the form of an adult male Gray Seal. The
usual suspects were in evidence with highlights being a lingering pair of
Eastern Meadowlarks between the entrance and exits of the West End II
parking lot north end. Harlequin ducks at the end of the jetty. Large
Dunlin flock with 50+ Black-bellied Plover mixed in along the inlet jetty
and 5 Piping Plovers where the jetty ends. A Red-necked Grebe sporting some
color showed in the bay behind the coast guard station. A Yellow-bellied
Sapsucker made a brief appearance in the parking lot at the coast guard
station. The high light of todays walk was furred not feathered in the form
of a male Gray Seal seen just east of the jetty and watched for 20 minutes
as it drifted west towards the inlet.
Robert Proniewych
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