Bird Sightings on Martha's Vineyard: June 2022
Black and white warbler.
Black and white warbler.
Great cormorants.
Great cormorants.
Parasitic jaeger.
Parasitic jaeger.
Purple martin.
Purple martin.
Sooty shearwater.
Sooty shearwater.
Eastern meadowlark.
Eastern meadowlark.
Great shearwater.
Great shearwater.
Sandhill crane.
Sandhill crane.
Semi-palmated sandpiper.
Semi-palmated sandpiper.
Hermit thrush.
Hermit thrush.
Common loon.
Common loon.
Black-bellied plover.
Black-bellied plover.
Saltmarsh sparrow.
Saltmarsh sparrow.
Spotted sandpiper.
Spotted sandpiper.
Laughing gull (immature).
Laughing gull (immature).
Sooty shearwater.
Sooty shearwater.
Rose-breasted grosbeak.
Rose-breasted grosbeak.
Iceland gull.
Iceland gull.
Yellow-throated warbler.
Yellow-throated warbler.
Ruddy turnstone.
Ruddy turnstone.
Wood thrush.
Wood thrush.
Now migrating shorebirds return as the calendar turns its page to June. Birders have crowded Island ponds and beaches as ruddy turnstones, short-billed dowitchers, red knots, sandpipers, and dunlin return to their summer homes.
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