Re: N. Lapwing found around the Santapogue Creek and sand-bar, and adjacent (public?) golf course. (Please drive safely and consider the holiday-period busy roads, etc.) Thanks to all for further updates!
This is *a North-American rare bird*, and some may be planning on coming a considerable ways to attempt to see it, esp. should the N. Lapwing remain accessible to view for some time (some days?) in any given location[s]. The below post to the Connecticut Birds list-serve (from Friday, 12/17) will help delineate the (likely) course of a Northern Lapwing’s progress ‘up’ (in sailing parlance) the shores of North America, first noticed on Newfoundland (Canada), then Sable Island off of Nova Scotia, then found at Milford Point in Connectucut, and just lately to Babylon township in Suffolk County, at the fairly-well-known ‘creek’ site for winter-appearing L.-b. Dowitchers and for Saturday 12/18, a bit of a bonus in the form of a mainly-Palearctic wader - and… where might that bird head next…? Thanks to all of the CT-birders and congrat’s on a fine record for that state, and to the CT Birds moderator (C.I.) for his post to that list on Friday. http://digest.sialia.com/?rm=message;id=1737764 <http://digest.sialia.com/?rm=message;id=1737764> https://lists.ctbirding.org/empathy/thread/MQZCDWSDK3AECAEH5ND3UVKHN3PKB6QP <https://lists.ctbirding.org/empathy/thread/MQZCDWSDK3AECAEH5ND3UVKHN3PKB6QP> (same but with the ‘thread' strung in individual parts.) good birds, Tom Fiore manhattan -- 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/ --
