Date: 5/6/25 9:58 pm From: Lani Raymond via groups.io <lanibirder...> Subject: [AKBirding] Shorebird Festival Preliminary Report
*2025 Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival: Species Tally*
*PRELIMINARY REPORT (May 5-6th)*
(Homer, AK) The Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival is May 7th-11th. We're off
to a great start! The weather forecast has promised warmer spring
temperatures with some sunshine and less wind for the rest of the week.
Sunshine is a great beginning for a Festival.
Many shorebirds and other species are already here. A list of species seen
May 5-6th is below. SANDHILL CRANES can be found all over town. Sparrows
singing, one warbler so far. Snipe winnowing, VARIED THRUSH, PACIFIC WREN
and FOX SPARROWS heard singing.
A large number of shorebirds was seen in Mud Bay the evening of May 2nd: up
to 2500 WESTERN SANDPIPERS and around 700 mixed DUNLIN, DOWITCHERS,
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, etc.
*Mud Bay:* *RED KNOT (1), MARBLED GODWIT (3), RED-NECKED PHALAROPE,
WHIMBREL, SURFBIRD, PACIFIC GOLDEN-PLOVER, BLACK TURNSTONE,* BLACK-BELLIED
PLOVER, DUNLIN, LEAST SANDPIPER (100), SHORT-BILLED and LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER,
WESTERN SANDPIPER, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, AMERICAN PIPIT, GREATER and LESSER
YELLOWLEGS.
*Mariner Park:* *SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER (2*), *WHIMBREL*, WESTERN and
LEAST SANDPIPER, DUNLIN, GREATER YELLOWLEGS,* GADWALL*, EURASIAN WIGEON,
LAPLAND LONGSPUR, VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOW, NORTHERN HARRIER,
*Beluga Lake East/Platforms:* *MARBLED GODWIT, PECTORAL SANDPIPER (2),*
GREATER YELLOWLEGS, WIILSON’S SNIPE, LEAST SANDPIPER, AMERICAN PIPIT,
BELTED KINGFISHER, BONAPARTE’S GULL, NORTHERN HARRIER, TREE SWALLOW, TUNDRA
SWAN, VARIED THRUSH, LINCOLN SPARROW, BOREAL CHICKADEE, *OSPREY,
ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, *NORTHERN HARRIER
*Portlock/Fernwood Rds.* *(~8 miles East End Rd): *WILSON’S SNIPE,
YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER, VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOW.
*Some other species seen over the weekend: HUDSONIAN GODWIT (Slough),
SANDERLING (Green Timbers), BLACK OYSTERCATCHER and TUFTED PUFFIN (Gull
Is.), PEREGRINE FALCON (Spit), RED-TAILED HAWK (East End Rd), SHARP-SHINNED
HAWK (Lake)*
