Welcome To Gull Point

Big news on the Gull Point Trail this past weekend was the unexpected installation of what appears to be a new interpretive (?) sign/kiosk at the trailhead at the Budny Beach parking lot:

Gull Point Trail trailhead – new sign kiosk

Currently, the kiosk is lacking content, i.e., empty. Perhaps a good spot for a poster like one of the following?


Moving on to more important matters, it’s back to birds along the Gull Point Trail on Saturday, starting with an American Robin foraging for berries:


Least Sandpiper in flight
Song Sparrow in song mode
Killdeer – adult (lower right) & immature (upper left)

Here’s a quite distant but quite fun sighting of immature Piping Plover, w/ dark bill and very pale/white overall:

Piping Plover (small white on left) + Osprey (perched on sign)
Piping Plover (on right in water)
Plover takes flight
Landing
Immature Piping Plover on bayside beach

2x GBHIF
GBHIF, underside view

At outer Gull Point, on one of the main lagoons, it’s Bank Swallow flycatching over the water, w/ reflections:


European Starlings on muddy sand bar
European Starlings in tree

Finally, on one of the bayside beaches, here’s a Semipalmated Plover exhibiting robin-like “foraging for earthworms” behaviour:


1 thought on “Welcome To Gull Point

  1. Paul Edwards

    This Team Member sent copies of the posters to the Chief Ranger at PI. A memo was attached telling him to post them! 🙂
    Loved all the photos Fun to see the Osprey sitting on a sign post. Nice to see the Ranger staff putting up posts for them!
    As always, excellent coverage!

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