Agreed..... silly larids in the air are great fun no matter where. Rich
On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 8:04 PM, Brendan Fogarty <birde...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Peter Post's plover continued apparently all day, bathing at an ephemeral > pool just south and west of the main Nickerson lot. 2 Royal Terns were > working just offshore and a Lesser Black-backed Gull was on the > beachfront. As I was driving out of the lot I had a naked-eye look at a > medium-sized, mostly dark shorebird which looked like a (likely the) > golden-plover, flying strongly east towards Pt Lookout and Jones Inlet. > > At Camp Anchor, a couple of beaches west of Nickerson (with the "mushroom" > pavillions), a large congregation of shorebirds feeding in the surf > included 130 American Oystercatchers, 160 Red Knot, and several billion > Sanderlings. > > The most interesting experience was a sudden vortex of Laughing Gulls that > formed over the Nickerson ballfields around 6:45pm. Roughly 300 gulls and > some terns were feeding on a fairly dense emergence of small, termite-like > winged insects. And over the dunes at anchor around 100 Common Terns and a > few Laughing Gulls were performing a similar stunt. Larids flycatching is > very entertaining to watch. > > Best, > Brendan Fogarty > -- > *NYSbirds-L List Info:* > Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME> > Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES> > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > *Archives:* > The Mail Archive > <http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> > Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L> > BirdingOnThe.Net <http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html> > *Please submit your observations to **eBird* > <http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>*!* > -- > -- Richard Guthrie -- 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/ --
