Belle Isle Marsh  2.00 - 3:00 pm (dst)  Soheil Zendeh  High tide: 1:10 pm,  Sky: hazy,  Temperature: 78° - 82°F (26° - 28°C),  Wind: 15 - 25 mph (25 - 40 kph),  Visibility: excellent,  Bird species: 10

Double-crested Cormorant 5

Great Egret 6

Snowy Egret 2

Greater Yellowlegs 2

Lesser Yellowlegs 1

Stilt Sandpiper 2

Rock Pigeon 1

Mourning Dove 1

Belted Kingfisher 1

Rusty Blackbird 1

Odes: meadowhawk sp. (Ian Davies pointed out the two dragonfly photos I attached last week were both of some kind of meadowhawk. The male is red.)

Leps: Cabbage white, Clouded sulphur, Monarch

No snakes or spiders today.

The real action was on Winthrop Beach earlier in the day. Around 11 I dropped by for a quick look and ended up staying around, looking at shorebirds for 3 hours. The highlight was a Marbled Godwit. There was a Baird's around as well. With the Western, White-rumped, Least and Semi, that makes for a 5-peep day. And, oh yes, a pair of Caspian Terns also flew by.

Here are the totals:

DC Cormorant 175

BB Plover 100+

Semip. Plover 30

Marbled Godwit 1

Ruddy Turnstone 1

Sanderling 50

Semip. Sandpiper

Western Sandpiper 1

Least Sandpiper 1

White-rumped Sandpiper 1

Baird's Sandpiper 1

Dunlin 3

Laughing Gull 42

Ring-billed Gull 100+

Herring Gull 20

Caspian tern 2