The following covers the weekend and today on the movement of shorebird arrival and departure from the East Pond.
The shorebirds continue to come and go on the East Pond of Jamaica Bay in Queens. I along with others had hoped the front would have pushed in some interesting birds on Saturday night but that was not the case as several us observed on Sunday. Tom Burke, Gail Benson and others had a WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER and a WESTERN SANDPIPER, on Sunday but that was the highlight. I did not see either of these birds and the White-rumped on Sunday was significant since I had not seen any since July 23rd until today when I counted 7; a sign that new birds had arrived. Overall, the volume of shorebirds have dropped significantly, but there is enough birds around to keep busy along with the arrivals of the juveniles. Lesser Yellowlegs, Short-billed Dowitcher and Least Sandpiper juveniles have started showing up albeit in small numbers. Today, I saw my first juvenile Semipalmated Sandpiper. The arrival of multiple White-rumped Sandpiper, is refreshing and sure beats the single birds that we have seen recently on the pond. No Pectoral Sandpiper today, but a bird that I photographed flying off the pond on the day of the downpour last week, which I suspected was a Pec, was confirmed to be one, once I got a chance to look at the photo. Here is hoping for lots more shorebirds in the coming weeks. Good Shorebirding! Andrew Baksh Queens, NY www.birdingdude.blogspot.com -- 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/ --
