We stopped at the Noth Beach marsh at ~ 5:30 pm, en route home and  w/o a scope. Water was high, but many peep still huddled on the near-vanished island. Whatever # I counted was superseded when a raptor (pr COHA) flew past and put up at least ~500, many having been hidden in the grass. W/o a scope I could not further pin down ID's beyond "peep" for any of them. With them  also a Willet - unusual and our first here - and a Gr Y'legs. The complete list:
 
Gr Blue Heron    4
Gr Egret                      0
Snowy Egret      3 (#'s way down)
"peep"        ~500
Willet           1
Gr Y'legs        1
Forster's Tern   4 (#'s way down)
 
Fred Fallon
Huntingtown

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