Re: [nysbirds-l] Am. Golden-Plover - Nickerson Beach 9/8 (Nassau Co)

[Trish]

Hi Shai,

I'll believe they are are citronella ants which frequently swarm in large 
numbers on warm Autumn days. People often mistake them for termites. 

Best ~
Patricia Manzi

> On Sep 8, 2016, at 10:55 PM, Shaibal Mitra <shaibal.mi...@csi.cuny.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi Brendan,
> 
> I saw two groups of gulls feeding on flying ants in Brooklyn yesterday 
> evening (7 Sep), at Plumb Beach at 7:10 and at Spring Creek Park at 7:20. 
> Laughing and Ring-billed Gulls usually predominate in these events, with 
> Common Terns and Herring Gulls also participating sometimes. The emergences 
> tend to be around this time, but it's interesting how synchronized they are 
> within a given year.
> 
> Here's a photo of from 2009. An entomologist friend of mine once identified 
> the species involved, but I can't remember.
> 
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/96951581@N02/29444884802/in/datetaken/
> 
> Shai Mitra
> Bay Shore
> 
> From: bounce-120766208-3714...@list.cornell.edu 
> [bounce-120766208-3714...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Brendan Fogarty 
> [birde...@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 8, 2016 8:04 PM
> To: NYSBIRDS-L
> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Am. Golden-Plover - Nickerson Beach 9/8 (Nassau Co)
> 
> 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
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Re: [nysbirds-l] Am. Golden-Plover - Nickerson Beach 9/8 (Nassau Co)

[Trish]

Hi Shai,

I'll believe they are are citronella ants which frequently swarm in large 
numbers on warm Autumn days. People often mistake them for termites. 

Best ~
Patricia Manzi

> On Sep 8, 2016, at 10:55 PM, Shaibal Mitra  wrote:
> 
> Hi Brendan,
> 
> I saw two groups of gulls feeding on flying ants in Brooklyn yesterday 
> evening (7 Sep), at Plumb Beach at 7:10 and at Spring Creek Park at 7:20. 
> Laughing and Ring-billed Gulls usually predominate in these events, with 
> Common Terns and Herring Gulls also participating sometimes. The emergences 
> tend to be around this time, but it's interesting how synchronized they are 
> within a given year.
> 
> Here's a photo of from 2009. An entomologist friend of mine once identified 
> the species involved, but I can't remember.
> 
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/96951581@N02/29444884802/in/datetaken/
> 
> Shai Mitra
> Bay Shore
> 
> From: bounce-120766208-3714...@list.cornell.edu 
> [bounce-120766208-3714...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Brendan Fogarty 
> [birde...@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 8, 2016 8:04 PM
> To: NYSBIRDS-L
> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Am. Golden-Plover - Nickerson Beach 9/8 (Nassau Co)
> 
> 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
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RE: [nysbirds-l] Am. Golden-Plover - Nickerson Beach 9/8 (Nassau Co)

[Shaibal Mitra]

Hi Brendan,

I saw two groups of gulls feeding on flying ants in Brooklyn yesterday evening 
(7 Sep), at Plumb Beach at 7:10 and at Spring Creek Park at 7:20. Laughing and 
Ring-billed Gulls usually predominate in these events, with Common Terns and 
Herring Gulls also participating sometimes. The emergences tend to be around 
this time, but it's interesting how synchronized they are within a given year.

Here's a photo of from 2009. An entomologist friend of mine once identified the 
species involved, but I can't remember.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/96951581@N02/29444884802/in/datetaken/

Shai Mitra
Bay Shore

From: bounce-120766208-3714...@list.cornell.edu 
[bounce-120766208-3714...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Brendan Fogarty 
[birde...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 8, 2016 8:04 PM
To: NYSBIRDS-L
Subject: [nysbirds-l] Am. Golden-Plover - Nickerson Beach 9/8 (Nassau Co)

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.

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RE: [nysbirds-l] Am. Golden-Plover - Nickerson Beach 9/8 (Nassau Co)

[Shaibal Mitra]

Hi Brendan,

I saw two groups of gulls feeding on flying ants in Brooklyn yesterday evening 
(7 Sep), at Plumb Beach at 7:10 and at Spring Creek Park at 7:20. Laughing and 
Ring-billed Gulls usually predominate in these events, with Common Terns and 
Herring Gulls also participating sometimes. The emergences tend to be around 
this time, but it's interesting how synchronized they are within a given year.

Here's a photo of from 2009. An entomologist friend of mine once identified the 
species involved, but I can't remember.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/96951581@N02/29444884802/in/datetaken/

Shai Mitra
Bay Shore

From: bounce-120766208-3714...@list.cornell.edu 
[bounce-120766208-3714...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Brendan Fogarty 
[birde...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 8, 2016 8:04 PM
To: NYSBIRDS-L
Subject: [nysbirds-l] Am. Golden-Plover - Nickerson Beach 9/8 (Nassau Co)

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.

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Re: [nysbirds-l] Am. Golden-Plover - Nickerson Beach 9/8 (Nassau Co)

[Richard Guthrie]

Agreed. silly larids in the air are great fun no matter where.

Rich

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 8:04 PM, Brendan Fogarty  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
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Re: [nysbirds-l] Am. Golden-Plover - Nickerson Beach 9/8 (Nassau Co)

[Richard Guthrie]

Agreed. silly larids in the air are great fun no matter where.

Rich

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 8:04 PM, Brendan Fogarty  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
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[nysbirds-l] Am. Golden-Plover - Nickerson Beach 9/8 (Nassau Co)

[Brendan Fogarty]

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 
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[nysbirds-l] Am. Golden-Plover - Nickerson Beach 9/8 (Nassau Co)

[Brendan Fogarty]

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 
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