12 photos and a 30 second video of this obliging visitor from the southern hemisphere (taken between 2:00 and 4:00 Sunday afternoon) are here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jgluth_brb/sets/72157627203244893/ After missing the Hudsonian Godwit at Jamaica Bay in the morning, finding this bird did wonders for my morale (that and finding a free parking space). It took around 15-20 minutes (walked the boardwalk from W 10th Ave. down to and out on the pier) before I headed onto the beach to take a closer look at a flock of Laughing Gulls atop one of the bath houses. That's where the GHGU was and where it was much of the time I spent observing it. Only a brief flight out to sit on the water just off the beach, and a few sorties down to the sand to partake of proffered cheese puffs (courtesy of a birder - Amar - who'd flown in from Chicago just for the bird) brought it and the Laughing Gull gang off the hot tin roof. -- 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/ --
