The American Avocet was still present at 7:30 this morning, on the eastern side of the (sometime) cut from Mecox Bay to the ocean. It had its head tucked while I was there, despite birders' relatively close presence. There were a very few other shorebirds (Piping Plover, Sanderling, Semipalmated Sandpiper, both Yellowlegs), and Chris Gangemi spotted an adult Lesser Black-backed Gull amid the Great Black-backed and Herring Gulls.:
I returned via Shinnecock Inlet and Dune Road. Other than a strong westward flux of Barn Swallows and a large Tree Swallow flock at Triton Lane, I saw nothing notable, either during a short sea watch at the inlet or at various stops to the west. Neither I nor Eileen Schwinn, whom I met at Tiana Beach, found the Avocet that had been there earlier this week. Doug Futuyma -- 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/ --
