[EBB Sightings] Semipalmated Plovers at Aquatic Park

There were 10 or 15 semipalmated plovers on the sand bank by the big 
toxic waste dump. Also some western sandpipers, dowitchers, willet, 
godwits, and killdeer there. At the northern end of the big pond we also 
saw a double crested cormorant with a baby shark -- about 12-15 inches 
long. It spent quite a while trying to get it started down its throat. 
It really looked to us like it couldn't do it. The fish was way too fat 
for the cormorant to swallow. But it finally got it started. (I don't 
know how.) Then it swallowed and swallowed and swallowed and swallowed 
and swallowed and swallowed and swallowed and swallowed and swallowed 
and swallowed and swallowed and swallowed. Then it swallowed and 
swallowed and swallowed and swallowed and swallowed. There was about 
three or four inches of tail still sticking out of its mouth when a 
couple of western gulls came along to try to help it eat the fish. That 
seemed to motivate the cormorant. After only four or five more swallows 
it had it down. Disappointed gulls!

semipalmated plover
killdeer
godwit
greater yellowlegs
willet
long billed dowitcher
western sandpiper
Foerster's tern
double crested cormorant
mallard
coot
Canada goose
domestic goose (Someone released them there years ago, and they're still
	doing fine.)
pied billed grebe
great egret
snowy egret
black crowned night heron
western gull
ring billed gull
black necked stilt
song sparrow
English house sparrow
European rock dove