Spent a couple of hours at Heckscher State Park in the early evening and had the very accommodating whimbrel in the grass median adjacent to parking field #7, that had been previously reported. Watched it for about 1/2 an hour as it probed in the soil regularly catching earthworms which it quickly and deftly swallowed. Never saw whimbrels feed on earthworms before......
Also had several least and semipalmated sandpipers in the shallow pools at the eastern edge of the parking field along with two greater yellowlegs and a lone pectoral. The density of dragonflies seen driving around the loop road was remarkable. The only species I could definitely identify were countless green darners..... John Turner -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
