This morning Lloyd Davis walked east from Powers Park (toward Prairie Creek and then beyond) and found a Sandwich Tern (only the 8th occurrence for Alachua County), a Common Tern, 3 Laughing Gulls, and a late-record Bufflehead. The low water is starting to attract bigger birds too: he had 45 American White Pelicans, 19 Great Egrets, and 18 Wood Storks. Still a lot of shorebirds too, including White-rumped and Stilt Sandpipers and Semipalmated Plovers. The Ruddy Turnstone that Lloyd found on the 12th was not seen again after that date.
