Nickerson Beach 15 June Arrived at 7:20 this morning. A half dozen photographers had proceeded me. Other than AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHERS with young and hundreds of COMMON TERNS, they had almost nothing else to take pictures of. A pair of GULL-BILLED TERNS was flying over the tern/skimmer colony and a pair of ROSEATE TERNS was sighted before I came.
A lone SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER was feeding along the shore edge plus about 20 SANDERLING. A molting FORSTER'S TERN was momentarily among the resting terns, picked up by Brendan Fogarty as it landed just as he stopped to chat. LEAST TERNS are beginning to nest farther to the west. Both the Piping Plover and Tern/Skimmer colony was being monitored and counted today. There are still approx. 125 BLACK SCOTERS in the water off the beach, but the Surf Scoters and the single Common Eider were not present today. NO Arctic or Black Terns reported as of 10:30. Sy Schiff -- 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/ --
