If you are like me and need a good Shorebird fix, than Napatree Point in Westerly, Rhode Island should take care of that. With the relative scarcity of Shorebirds in CT and other parts of New England, it is refreshing to be able to spend a late Sept. day Shorebirding. Highlights include: (I didn't count but estimated) 3 to 4 dozen Oystercatchers, 150+ peeps including Least Sandpipers, Semi-palmated Sandpipers and Semi-palmated Plovers. 2 Greater Yellowlegs, 1 Lesser Yellowlegs, 1 Short-billed Dowitcher, 12-15 Sanderlings, 18 to 24 Dunlin (in all plumages and transitional plumages), 2 White-rumped Sandpipers, 4 Red Knots (1 in worn plumage with residual red in its plumage), 8 Ruddy Turnstone and 18 Black-bellied Plovers. Also 13 Am. Pipit, 1 Merlin and 1 Peregrine sleeping/perched near the bluff with the Bank Swallow burrows. 1 Laughing Gull, 3 Brant, 1 hen Red-breasted Merganser and 13 Common Eider. I didn't find the Baird's Sandpiper and pair of Piping Plover reported yesterday. Keith MUeller Killingworth, CT.