Now migrating shorebirds return as the calendar turns its page to June. Birders have crowded Island ponds and beaches as ruddy turnstones, short-billed dowitchers, red knots, sandpipers, and dunlin return to their summer homes.

Keep up to date with bird activity on Martha’s Vineyard through the Bird News column, and report bird sightings to birds@vineyardgazette.com.

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