Kyle Bardwell, max kogut, mike kogut and I also hit east pond. we had all the birds seen by Andrew except did not pick out LB Dowitcher and for shore birds we can add: least sp, single spotted sp, single black skimmer and many oystercatchers. Our highlight was the success of the imm. peregrine with a shorebird in its talons -- maybe it was the LB dowitcher we missed Kyle got some shots
It was a heron festival on both sides GReat blue, green, yellow crown, black crown (incl. 12 at big johns pond), great and snowy egrets (23 on east pond) and highlight on west pond an imm little blue changing plumage about half still white and other half blue Also enjoyed brown thrasher, oriole, willow and great crested Flycatchers L. Trachtenberg Ossining Sent from my iPhone On Jul 25, 2013, at 12:19 PM, "Andrew Baksh" <birdingd...@gmail.com<mailto:birdingd...@gmail.com>> wrote: There has been a steady departure of shorebirds over the past few days as evidenced by the numbers. For example, the number of Short-billed Dowitchers have dropped from the thousands to less than 200 on the pond this morning. Stilt Sandpipers which maxed at 54 on Sunday were down to less than 10 today on the pond. Semipalmated Sandpipers were still in decent numbers; however, the numbers here too are dropping quickly. The highlight of this morning was a Long-billed Dowitcher which I was not sure of at first due to distant looks but I finally got better looks to confirm the ID. This took a long time as the birds were quite skittish and kept putting up all morning. Finally their fear was realized as the "the" young Peregrine Falcon, came by but once again left without a kill. I have seen this bird make several sorties with zero kills to date from my observation. Hopefully he learns quickly or find another source of entertainment as it is quite frustrating to have him jack with the shorebirding. Other notables were White-Rumped Sandpiper (2) and a single Western Sandpiper, I think a male given the small size of the bill. I'll have photos online as well as more detailed shorebird numbers later. "I saw a Royal baby...Tern that is" Andrew Baksh Queens, NY www.birdingdude.blogspot.com<http://www.birdingdude.blogspot.com> -- NYSbirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L> BirdingOnThe.Net<http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- -- 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/ --
