Joe Giunta and I (Sy Schiff went to EPCAL via Ocean Pkwy stopping off at the Jones Beach Coast Guard Station on the way, The bar held a nice mix of shorebirds inc. 75 DUNLIN, 20 AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHERS. 10 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, 4 RED KNOT and a SANDERLING. There were 40 BONAPARTE'S GULLS feeding in the inlet. A pair of LAUGHING GULLS flew by beyond them..
At EPCAL, the continuing COMMON GALLINULE was swimming on the far side of the pond, across from the dirt road paralleling it. We birded the shrubbery and trees surrounding the pond and turned up 4 species of Woodpecker, GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET, TREE, WHITE-THROATED, CHIPPING and FIELD SPARROWS, plus several DARK-EYED JUNCO. Unexpected was a very late PRAIRIE WARBLER. Also 1 antlered Deer. As we were preparing to leave, an adult BALD EAGLE came low over the pond, flew around and put on a great show to end the morning birding. -- 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/ --
