Jones Beach West End 21 Sep Arrived just after high tide (8:30). The bar was covered with shorebirds and skimmers. All but the oystercatchers and some of the skimmers left at 10:15. Both Osprey and Peregrine were about, but not near the shorebirds, so not sure what spooked them. But while there, we had things to search through. Fun morning.
Numbers very conservative guesses as the birds were moving about and hard to count. . Black-bellied Plover ~150 all over the bar AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER-2, one near back edge, one near front edge American Oystercatcher--30, but many more behind the island Ruddy Turnstone-8 plus 4 on station breakwater Red Knot-50 scattered throughout Sanderling- 200 most in two tight knit groups Semipalmated Sandpiper-1 lost among the wandering Sanderling Dunlin-1 found, tucked its head in and virtually disappeared Short-billed Dowitcher-4 Black Skimmer-150, many young, some looked barely out of the nest Forster's Tern-3 flyby 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/ --
