Back home I kicked around the beaches looking for something new.
At the Fort Fisher Athletic Fields there was some good flooding but the only bird of note was this Solitary Sandpiper which showed good comparison to a nearby Lesser Yellowlegs.
Solitary SP - same spot different day
One of these days someone will find a Eurasian Whimbrel. This was not one of those days.
Western Sandpiper - classic example with longer bill and some rufous on the scapulars.
On the 22nd, I went out on another pelagic. I don't want to come across like an entitled jerk but I have had real bad luck this summer on pelagics. No Boobies, no Tropicbirds, no Noddies, no Fea's, No Bermuda, no White-faced or other rarities. You would think with the amount I have been on I would have bagged some of those. Still I do enjoy every time I go out as I learn more and more how to ID pelagic birds on the fly. Pelagic birding is really dependent on cues that are more subtle and difficult to explain. The old timers call it the "Jizz" of the bird.
Sooty Terns were a year bird but expected in great numbers this time of year so it was hard to be too happy about it.
I continued my streak of seeing no rarities but I learned a smidgeon more about the strange denizens of the deep.
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