Marine Nature Study Area, Oceanside 20 April The tide was very high this morning, It looked especially eerie with the dense fog covering the flooded marsh and only tops of vegetation visible. None-the-less, there was a full set of recent arrivals, but restricted to wetland birds. Lingering Brant were everywhere and fairly tame, now that the hunting season is long over.
Waders consisted of numerous GREAT and SNOWY EGRET, several BLACK and YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON and flyover GLOSSY IBIS. CLAPPER RAIL, GREATER YELLOWLEGS and WILLET called from the marsh, but only the shorebirds were seen. (Note: the Yellow-crowned Night-Herons have returned to the nearby heronry north of Waukena Ave). A pair of FORSTER'S TERN were fishing close by the parking lot in areas that one could normally walk on at low tide. Sy Schiff -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
