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 looked. It was not subsequently relocated.
At Cupsogue, we parked by the road to the trailer campgrounds and walked the sand road to the path leading to the bay. This is longer, but a lot easier than wading through the march. Directly across on the front of the bar were 3 MARBLED GODWIT among the gulls, shorebirds and cormorants. We then moved a way to our right (east) along the edge to a spot that appeared appropriate. There in a small area of the marsh, we called up 2 SEASIDE SPARROWS and 2 SALTMARSH SPARROWS. Except for the sparrows which came fairly close, the other birds required a fairly high powered scope even though they are pretty large birds. Sy -- 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/ --
