?Hi all, Here is a link to the clip I took of Purple Sandpiper this afternoon. At times it came as close as 6 feet from me. It moved very fast in general. At one time the surfer had left his surfboard at the edge of the lake and the bird foraged in between the boards. Quite a cute bird!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRE6AEbxE-Y [http://img.youtube.com/vi/vRE6AEbxE-Y/0.jpg]<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRE6AEbxE-Y> Purple Sandpiper - YouTube A Purple Sandpiper at Myers Point Tompkins County New York on 10/26/14 feeding along the shore. Watch now...<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRE6AEbxE-Y> Also from the East Shore, I saw 6 or 7 female Black Scoters very actively foraging and being underwater for quite sometime. Cheers Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 42.429007,-76.47111 http://www.haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ Ithaca area moths: https://plus.google.com/118047473426099383469/posts Dragonfly book sample pages: http://www.haribal.org/dragonflies/samplebook.pdf -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
