Bird Sightings on Martha's Vineyard: July 2016
A young Cooper's hawk.
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Whimbrel.
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Young ruddy turnstone.
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Seven short-billed dowitchers with semi-palmated sandpipers and sanderlings.
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Ruddy turnstones.
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Single royal tern with group of Sandwich terns.
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A young Forster's tern gets its feet wet in Katama Bay.
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Juvenile horned lark, likely fledged on the Island.
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Royal tern makes a getaway with some lunch.
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Black-crowned night-heron.
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Long-tailed duck.
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Female black scoter.
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Male and female black scoters.
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Spotted sandpiper.
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Least terns are the smallest terns, as well as the most common.
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White-rumped sandpiper.
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Least tern chicks are fed small fish, like sand lance and silversides.
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Cormorants.
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Hummingbird in her nest cup made of lichen morsels and spider webs.
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Greater yellowlegs.
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Harlequin duck grooms.
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Surf scoter.
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Wood thrush.
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