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Conducting the ongoing Bulls Island waterfowl/shorebird survey with Scott Davis and Richard Stuhr. This was our first survey since Hurricane Matthew blew through 7 to 8 Oct 2016. Effort: 10.3 mi and 1 hr 30 min by truck plus 2.5 mi and 3 hr 45 min by foot. Weather: sunny, warm, and very light breezes; temps 67 F to 79 F; W winds <= 5 mph; barometer 30.24 in Hg falling to 30.14 in Hg. Tide was forecast 5.5 ft high at 10:37 AM. Salt water likely intruded into Jack's Creek when the dike failed at the trunk at the Old Fort. Almost all, maybe all, of the exposed mud flats in Jack's Creek are now flooded with standing water, but it is not full to the brim. Some oceanfront dunes were over washed and thus flattened, but the island fared fairly well through the storm otherwise.
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Number observed: 3
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Number observed: 35
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Number observed: 80
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Number observed: 6
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Number observed: 15
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Number observed: 4
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Number observed: 920
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Number observed: 2
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One was banded: BO:X,g (a.k.a. Old Man Plover). He hatched in 2002 at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, MI and began breeding there in 2005, which is when he received his current band combination.
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Number observed: 1
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Number observed: 15
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Number observed: 3
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Number observed: 19
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Number observed: 405
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Estimated.
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Number observed: 29
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Number observed: 417
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Estimated , most in one bind.
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Number observed: 25
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Number observed: 16
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Number observed: 3
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Number observed: 1
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Number observed: 2
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Number observed: 8
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Number observed: 7
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Number observed: 2
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Oceanfront marsh at Jack's, in their usual location.
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Number observed: 8
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Number observed: 2
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Number observed: 3
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Number observed: 14
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Number observed: 84
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Number observed: 11
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Number observed: 2
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Number observed: 1
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Number observed: 3
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Number observed: 3
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Number observed: 1
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Number observed: 1
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Number observed: 3
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Number observed: 6
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Number observed: 2
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Number observed: 20
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Number observed: 3
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Number observed: 1
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Number observed: 1
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Number observed: 1
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Number observed: 2
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Number observed: 2
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Number observed: 1
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Number observed: 1
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Number observed: 1
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Number observed: 3
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Number observed: 42
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Number observed: 2
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Number observed: 5
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Number observed: 1
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Number observed: 2
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Estimate as a very large brace of these plovers flushed immediately before we scoped to ID species and counted. May have been flushed by an unidentified falcon, maybe Peregrine Falcon or Merlin.