Look for a tall shaft, chimney or similar structure to locate where Chimney Swifts (central to east coast) or Vaux's Swift (Pacific coast) go to roost in your area.On one night over the weekend of August 10, 11, 12, and / or September 7, 8, 9 observe the roost starting about 30 minutes before dusk and estimate the number of swifts that enter.

Overall #'s of the species are still relatively low, with a population estimate of 3000 to 7500 individuals for the eastern subspecies, so oystercatchers remain a species of conservation concern despite recent trends towards recovery.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Frances2004rain.gif Here's the list of shorebirds from that day: American Golden-Plover 23 Black-bellied Plover 1 White-rumped Sandpiper 18 Pectoral Sandpiper 20+ Semipalmated Sandpiper 40+ Least Sandpiper 50+ Semipalmated Plover 1 Solitary Sandpiper 1 Killdeer 20+ Greater Yellowlegs 6 Lesser Yellowlegs 1 My estimates total

I would estimate about a thousand Brant, and about 8 thousand Scaup. They looked to be barnacle feeding. Also there was over a hundred Common Goldeneye. Inside the harbor there were no gulls on the Pleasure Beach side. What about Stratford? I went to Long Beach and there were no gulls the length of the parking lot. not even the Glaucous Gull.

I have no idea how much is really true but I do know that our distributors are not making any money on it as most are now completely out of nyjer and have no real estimate of delivery time.

Peregrine Falcon 1 sitting on sandbar 6:45pm Black-bellied Plover 50 Semipalmated Plover 20 American Oystercatcher 6 Sanderling 300 Semipalmated Sandpiper 50 Short-billed Dowitcher 4 Laughing Gull 5000 Huge numbers (conservative estimate) flying upriver the whole time, then resting in large flocks on Short Beach (despite

In total we estimated around 250 +/- Bonapartes Gulls flew by. The birds seemed to be looking for more roosting Bonapartes Gulls as they flew along and over the beach dropping down and then up again to drop down again over the beach and then up again.

I estimated about 100 Yellow-rumped Warblers but there could have easily been twice as many. Mixed in with the yellow-rumps were several Pine, Palm and Black-and-White Warblers. I also heard and saw a Black-throated Green Warbler and Blue-headed Vireo.

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MAMMALS: Coyote - 4, My overdue first Coyotes for Millennium, at least 4 animals yodeling 8 species (+2 other taxa) Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) 1 Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) 1 Upland Sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda) 1 **rare; higher and a bit more distant than the thrush flight, but a Veery (Catharus fuscescens) 198 constantly calling; estimate