Mei Yee and I birded the Cupsogue flats on Sunday during the falling and rising tides. The numbers of shorebirds were down as expected for this time of the year especially in the "peep" department.
In all, we had a total of 17 species of shorebirds. The shorebird highlights included 158 RED KNOTS, which included 2 juveniles. 2 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS which included 1 juvenile, 4 WESTERN WILLETS all appearing to be young uns and 1 WHIMBREL (juvenile). Non shorebirding highlights on the flats included 56 ROYAL TERNS 3 COMMON TERNS and 2 FORSTER'S TERNS. Seawatching, was yet again non productive with 1 tubenose too far out to make a "proper" call. On the gulling front, we did document a 3rd CYC LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL briefly in the parking lot before it was flushed by arriving beach goers. "Birding is not like Pokemoning - nothing imaginary unless you are Stringing" :-) Cheers, -- "I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." ~ Frederick Douglass 風 Swift as the wind 林 Quiet as the forest 火 Conquer like the fire 山 Steady as the mountain Sun Tzu <http://refspace.com/quotes/Sun_Tzu> *The Art of War* <http://refspace.com/quotes/The_Art_of_War> (\__/) (= '.'=) (") _ (") Andrew Baksh www.birdingdude.blogspot.com -- 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/ --
