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They’re Back!!	Gone during May-June
	While gone the ‘Oystercatchers’ take over the intertidal – then leave to nest as migration returns

Good to hear them again

Turnstones, plovers, and surfbirds heading south already

The cacophony of sound – like music of familiarity

(here is short video where sound muted as become aware I am ‘watching’)

An earlier wave is mostly males who must still be testosterone laden as they ‘joust’ continuously and make a characteristic call—previous video link)

Black Oystercatcher – aggregate along the intertidal vacated when turnstones go north to nest – then they disperse again to nest when ‘competition’ comes back

Haematopus brachmani

BioOne articles w one on QCIs 5% banded juveniles remain same location – and S Hazlitt for BC breeding success AK government site considers small total population (mostly in AK) requires more study into its ecology

Earlier footage: Oyster catchers flock in June
187K WMF format – flying w calls precedes breeding

	“coho bird”
	Only local ‘shorebird’ that swims --- only 1 sighted this year

Created by LG on July /20/2005

Last updated on Sunday, August 21, 2005

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Gone during May-June