7/31 Milford, Milford Point - this morning just after high tide, I spent 2 hours looking through the huge flocks of shorebirds (and terns) of . Nothing rare found. Highlights: 5,000 Semipalmated Sandpipers (pretty accurate estimate after studying/counting birds in photographed flocks. Amazing clouds of birds when they flushed.), 66 Sanderlings, 60 Semipalmated Plovers, 37 Ruddy Turnstones, 170 Common Terns, 23 Least Terns, 1 Common Loon. On 7/30, I did the same here, and managed to find 1 Western Sandpiper among the SESA flocks. Frank Mantlik Stratford