Any update on the stilt? Yesterday was an impossible day for me to take even a short road trip to nearby this beach....thank you for any update.
Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 21, 2019, at 5:18 PM, Steve Walter <swalte...@verizon.net> wrote: > > I posted a picture of the Nickerson Beach (Nassau co.) Black-necked Stilt on > my website at http://stevewalternature.com/ . It’s one of 483 pictures I > took – all from my car. The main reason for taking so many was the less than > good lighting most of the morning. As I discussed with some people, adults > stilts are not just black and white. In good light – which came through > eventually –, they look glossy – as this picture kind of shows. The stilt > was faithful to the one pool, repeatedly going from one end to the other. I > advised a few people that had stepped out of their cars that they could be > rewarded with close looks if they waited in their cars. They were indeed > rewarded. So it’s unfortunate to hear of different behavior this afternoon. I > think I’ve heard that before – like with the puddle birds at Heckscher last > year. The afternoon is when the trouble seem to occur, for whatever reason > that is. > > That sort of segues to another topic. Maybe a twofold problem. One is of the > fragmentation of reporting. I went to Nickerson this morning, having heard on > a forum I subscribe to about the American Golden Plovers found yesterday. But > I talked to people today that didn’t know about them, mainly because it was > not posted to this list. That’s a good species for April and deserves more > pub. If you’re a shorebird aficionado like I am, that’s a rare opportunity to > photograph – if you behave around them – Goldens in true non-breeding plumage > (as opposed to fading alternate or juvenile). But then maybe, if it was > posted everywhere, the non-bevahers would have arrived sooner? So I don’t > know. It’s a conversation that’s come up before, and likely will again. But a > Black-necked Stilt surely has to be shared. And sorry if it got double > posted. I never know if my own post is getting through. > > Steve Walter > Bayside, NY > -- > NYSbirds-L List Info: > Welcome and Basics > Rules and Information > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > Archives: > The Mail Archive > Surfbirds > ABA > Please submit your observations to 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/ --
