[nysbirds-l] Day late news - my bad ! No shorebirds, with Peregrines, Turkey Vultures and good company instead...even had 2 "lifers" !
On 9/3, responding to Tim Healy's current post re: Buff-breasted & Baird's Sandpipers at the Doctor's Path sod fields, I hustled out, only to find a group of 6 birders, with their optics fully engaged - not with the birds they had just seen, but rather trying to locate them again ! It seems that the 2 Peregrines, which had arrived a tad earlier than myself, decided to land rather than blow on bye, much to my chagrin ! The falcons, while giving good views, stayed much too long, probably causing the shorebirds to stay away. We also had a flock of 15, or more, T.V's provide some action, while we waited in vain. A trip around the "Golden Trapezium" didn't help either ! And now for the best part of the day, greeting old friends and making new ones ! The former group was made up of Sue & Ken Feustel, Menachem Goldstein & his Mom, Karen* and Tom Moran, a fellow ELIAS member. It was gratifying to finally meet the last 2 birders, namely Tim Healy and then Lee Stocker, who arrived later. In the past, I had exchanged emails with both of them, so it was nice to put faces on their electronic signatures ! Cheers, Bob * I first had the pleasure of making Karen's acquaintance when she was chauffeuring her NYSYBC son around to all the "good finds", but now that Menachem is doing the driving, she just comes along for all the "good action" ! -- 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Day late news - my bad ! No shorebirds, with Peregrines, Turkey Vultures and good company instead...even had 2 "lifers" !
On 9/3, responding to Tim Healy's current post re: Buff-breasted & Baird's Sandpipers at the Doctor's Path sod fields, I hustled out, only to find a group of 6 birders, with their optics fully engaged - not with the birds they had just seen, but rather trying to locate them again ! It seems that the 2 Peregrines, which had arrived a tad earlier than myself, decided to land rather than blow on bye, much to my chagrin ! The falcons, while giving good views, stayed much too long, probably causing the shorebirds to stay away. We also had a flock of 15, or more, T.V's provide some action, while we waited in vain. A trip around the "Golden Trapezium" didn't help either ! And now for the best part of the day, greeting old friends and making new ones ! The former group was made up of Sue & Ken Feustel, Menachem Goldstein & his Mom, Karen* and Tom Moran, a fellow ELIAS member. It was gratifying to finally meet the last 2 birders, namely Tim Healy and then Lee Stocker, who arrived later. In the past, I had exchanged emails with both of them, so it was nice to put faces on their electronic signatures ! Cheers, Bob * I first had the pleasure of making Karen's acquaintance when she was chauffeuring her NYSYBC son around to all the "good finds", but now that Menachem is doing the driving, she just comes along for all the "good action" ! -- 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/ --
