[nysbirds-l] Pike's Beach--3 Marbled Godwits

2013-09-29 Thread John Gluth
There were 3 MARBLED GODWITS, a Western Willet, and 15 Royal Terns among Double-crested Cormorants, Sanderlings, and gulls (Laughing, Ring-billed and Herring) on the sliver of sandbar above water at high tide this afternoon (2:30-2:45) at Pike's Beach overlook. I'd stopped in for a quick look af

Re:[nysbirds-l] Pike's Beach & Cupsogue Co. Park

2012-09-13 Thread John Gluth
I too was at Cupsogue and Pike's Beach today, I assume later than Sy et al (~12:45-3:30, all but the last 10 min. at Cupsogue). I took the same route out to the flats (RV road, bay beach). I first found 2 MARBLED GODWITS (MAGO) out on the large sand bar in the middle of Moriches Inlet (north end, e

[nysbirds-l] Pike's Beach & Cupsogue Co. Park

2012-09-13 Thread sy schiff
Pike's Beach and Cupsogue County Park 13 September Joe Giunta, Debbie Martin and I (Sy Schiff) parked in the bay side parking lot of Pike's Beach and walked out to the bay. Directly across on the bar were 12 ROYAL TERNS and a CASPIAN TERN among the gulls. The Caspian flew off to the west as we

[nysbirds-l] Pike's Beach; Cupsogue Co. Park; Calverton Grasslands (Suffolk Co.)

2012-05-31 Thread ken feustel
Sue and I spent a nice low humidity/bugless morning at the west end of Dune Road, starting at Pike's Beach. Pike's Beach had the usual shorebirds in fair numbers with the only bird of note a single White-rumped Sandpiper. At Cupsogue Co. Park we waded across the marsh drain to take a look at the

[nysbirds-l] Pike's Beach

2011-08-04 Thread Luke Ormand
I visited Pike's Beach this evening - nothing spectacular or really all that out of the ordinary but there were two non-breeding plumaged Piping Plovers, several Greater Yellowlegs, a small group of Ruddy Turnstones and plenty of semipalmated sandpipers. Photos can be seen here: http://birdsoflong

[nysbirds-l] Pike's Beach Royal Terns and Cupsogue Marbled Godwits

2010-08-08 Thread John Gluth
Sunday afternoon (12:30-4:00) I birded Pike's Beach and Cupsogue County Park, starting about 50 minutes after low tide. At Pike's there were 39 ROYAL TERNS roosting on the western sandbar, a mix of adults and juveniles. One or two of the adults seemed to still be in young-feeding mode (hormones ye

Re:[nysbirds-l] Pike's Beach

2009-07-27 Thread AndyatWH
The town of Southampton has just opened ( is in the process of building ) a new area just to the west of the bay side parking area at Pike's beach. It consists of a trail to a bird watching platform with benchs, access to the mud flats, and a new parking lot off Dune Road Holding about a d