I met an Australian birder at Jamaica Bay who really wanted to see Piping Plovers so I took him to breezy point. I was expecting it to pour on us so I left my camera and phone in the car. We parked at Tilden and walked a good ways down the beach until we found a large loafing flock. Mixed in with them was a first summer Arctic Tern. Seen on the ground through scope for about 2 minutes among common terns and then seen in flight as well when birds were flushed by a beach walker. Bird flew off over the ocean and I lost it flying out to sea. Also present were 7 1st summer Common Terns.
I was eventually chased off the beach by an angry and hostile Breezy resident who was completely unimpressed by an Arctic Tern on "his" beach. Bird was seen about 5:45 and I've just gotten back to the car. Isaac Grant Senior Loan Officer -- 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/ --
