January Beach Trip

Posted at 8:54 PM, Sunday, January 27, 2008

This weekend, we surveyed our two beaches for dead birds. As usual, Andie had a great time running on the beach and helping us spot the carcasses. We even enjoyed a rare beach snow storm at Sand Lake on Sunday morning.

Andie rests during a break in the rain at Bob Straub State Park. My duct taped rain boot is visible to her left. Haystack Rock and Cape Kiawanda are in the background



We try to standardize our search effort, so we try not  to let her spot birds that we would not normally find on our own. We have our doubts, however, if we would have come across this Leach's storm petrel wing without her help.

 



We also found three common murres, two western grebes, a Clark's grebe, a northern fulmar, and a pelagic cormorant.