I spent an hour at Hammonasset Beach in Madison, Connecticut today watching the winter visitors along the beach. The three usual suspects were particularly cooperative as I climbed the jetty rocks at the east end of the park.
Ghostly white Sandlerlings with their black eyes and beaks rested on the jetty rocks just out of the way of the spray. Dunlins were running the beach, poking with their long black bills to find morsels in the sand. And the Ruddy Turnstones, with dark shawls over their shoulders, sat together at several levels of rock trying to rest.
Black and Surf Scoters, along with a couple of Loons, were in their spots, spending more time under water than on top. As a result, no pictures.
--Chris
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