Highlights: Cupsogue: 1 Wilson's Storm Petrel - the only highlight from an hour of seawatching.
On the Cupsogue Flats: 4 Roseate, 3 Royal, 1 Black (1st Summer) and 2 GULL-BILLED TERNS. Were present in addition to the expected Sternidaes. For shorebirds, the highlights were 4 White-rumped Sandpipers, 23 Red Knots and 14 Short-billed Dowitchers. Jones Beach Swale: continuing 2 Black-necked Stilts (BNST), 3 White-rumped Sandpipers, 1 Western Sandpiper and two 1Cy LBBGs were the highlights there. If the BNSTs are the same birds observed by one Stan Furtak at the end of May (30th, it would mean these birds have hung around the Jones Beach area for more than 2 weeks. Nickerson Beach: lots of Beach activity and vehicular disturbances. I never really had a huge number of Terns to look at. The highlights were four 1st summer COTEs. A hike along the beach sorting through the Gulls turned up two 3Cy Lesser Black-backed Gulls. 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 The Art of War > (__/) > (= '.'=) > (") _ (") > Sent from somewhere in the field using my mobile device! Andrew Baksh www.birdingdude.blogspot.com -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --