Kudos to Andrew for all he’s done at JBNWR to try and get it back to what it once was as well as his regular reportage of all the shorebirds I can’t ID. Perhaps I will take the drive down on a (cooler) summer day from Ossining as it’s been a long while. (As an aside, I did have my first southward migratory peep (a single bird) yesterday morning (a bit of a distance so leave it at that) at Croton Point Park feeding briefly on swimming beach 6:50 a.m.)
L. Trachtenberg Ossining From: bounce-122700949-26736...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-122700949-26736...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Andrew Baksh Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2018 11:03 AM To: nysbirds-l <nysbirds-l@cornell.edu> Cc: Nyc ebirds <ebirds...@yahoogroups.com> Subject: [nysbirds-l] East Pond ( & Breezy Point Queens Co... Yesterday morning, I hiked the East Pond doing a complete shorebird survey. Overall, the number of shorebirds were down. Especially the Yellowlegs and Short-billed Dowitchers. 12 Stilt Sandpipers were mostly up around the north end along with my first observation of Semipalmated Plovers on the pond for the season. American Oystercatchers continue to show up on the pond in good numbers. 27 were loafing on the Raunt before taking off as I made my way north. The duckage continue to hold a few Summer surprises. Green-winged Teal, American Wigeon and RED-BREASTED MERGANSER were all observed. Two continuing BONAPARTE’s GULLS were also seen comfortably feeding on the pond edges. On Sunday 7-15) at Breezy Point the highlights were two storm driven WHIMBRELS (put down in the rain & left just as the rain paused), two 2CY Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 1 Banded Adult Herring Gull and two BANK SWALLOWS. Also notable was a juvenile Ring-billed Gull (RBGU). I have not seen too many juvenile RBGU at Breezy so that was a treat. This one I would deem to be the brown-type. Where the general appearance is of a brown chocolate color showing the distinctive feature of large scapulars with solidly dark centers. About 1,000 Sanderlings dotted the shoreline along with Semipalmated Sandpipers, Least Sandpipers and Semipalmated Plovers. Some Piping Plovers were also active with a few juveniles indicating successful nesting. A decent number of Terns (few hundred) were offshore but nothing outside of the expected Common, Forster’s and Leasts in various age classes. A link to Phone scoped images of the Lesser Black-backed Gulls. https://twitter.com/birdingdude/status/1019234656896634880?s=21 Cheers, -------- "I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." ~ Frederick Douglass 風 Swift as the wind 林 Quiet as the forest 火 Conquer like the fire 山 Steady as the mountain Sun Tzu<http://refspace.com/quotes/Sun_Tzu> The Art of War<http://refspace.com/quotes/The_Art_of_War> (\__/) (= '.'=) (") _ (") Sent from somewhere in the field using my mobile device! Andrew Baksh www.birdingdude.blogspot.com<http://www.birdingdude.blogspot.com> -- NYSbirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm> 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> ABA<http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
