[Birdnet] Pomarine Jaeger, Causeway shorebirds

[Joel and Kathy Beyer]

We made our way to Farmington Bay WMA this morning about 9 am, and
eventually found the Jaeger resting on the water east of the dike, about
200 yards south of the second bridge where it was reported previously. 
We had excellent looks (thanks to some cloud cover) as it chased a
Forster's Tern around, and it then headed southeast.  We refound it later
sitting in Unit 2, and again it took off to chase some Black Terns,
before disappearing for good.   From all we could see, this was a
juvenile Pomarine Jaeger, not a Parasitic.

A Wilson's Snipe, a Greater Yellowlegs and several Lesser Yellowlegs were
seen on the east side of the FBWMA entrance road.

Two Common Terns were in the pond at the west end of Glover Lane
(Farmington).

This afternoon the north side of the Antelope Island Causeway was alive
with birds bulking up during the storm.  A couple thousand each Western
and Baird's Sandpipers, a Dunlin, 3 Pectoral Sandpipers, 2 Red Knots, 7
Marbled Godwits, 3 Snowy Plovers, 8 Black-bellied Plovers, 3 Wilson's
Phalaropes, a Red-necked Phalarope, 6 Sanderlings, 5 Long-billed Curlews
(south side) and lots and lots and lots of Avocets.  No Sabine's Gull
today.

Kathy and Joel
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