Following one of the dullest periods of birding in the county that I can
remember, Birding came to life the last week or so. The Bashakill is alive
with birds following one of the best breeding seasons the marsh birds have had
in years. As many as sixteen Common Moorhens, including ten grown
On late afternoon patrol, at the Marine Nature Study Area in Oceanside,
NY at 4:38pm, an American Avocet was seen with Greater Yellowlegs,
Lesser Yellowlegs, Semipalmated Sandpipers and Plovers, Black-bellied
Plovers, Least Sandpipers and Short-billed Dowitchers. It was located in
the mudflat on
Tuesday, 17 August, 2010
A visit to Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge (Queens County, N.Y. City) as
the afternoon high tide approached and peaked showed that a good
number of shorebirds remained - not having been there for over a week,
it was not apparent to me how much change, or not, had
Tuesday, 17 August, 2010
A visit to Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge (Queens County, N.Y. City) as
the afternoon high tide approached and peaked showed that a good
number of shorebirds remained - not having been there for over a week,
it was not apparent to me how much change, or not, had
On late afternoon patrol, at the Marine Nature Study Area in Oceanside,
NY at 4:38pm, an American Avocet was seen with Greater Yellowlegs,
Lesser Yellowlegs, Semipalmated Sandpipers and Plovers, Black-bellied
Plovers, Least Sandpipers and Short-billed Dowitchers. It was located in
the mudflat on
