*List of Top 3 and Contenders (eBird-a-thon 2011) - weekly update / table
updated daily
*
Additional species for 2011 have been made since last week. Each
region/county section has links to:
- the Top "100" observers for the year
- bar charts for each species with links to a sightings map
- a list
Jones Beach Coast Guard Station. 20 Aug
Today's Godwit was a Hudsonian molting into basic plumage. It has a fair amount
of warm brown on it and because of the distance requires care to make sure
which species is actually there. Both today's bird and the prior one flew
showing the wing patterns.
Hello Everyone, I led a Cornell Cooperative/Suffolk Parks Bird Walk at
Cupsogue this morning of marsh and mudflats. The tidal pond furthest west of
the big flat was quite active with a Yellow Crowned , 3 Black Crowned Night
Herons, both Yellowlegs, SB Dowitchers, Eastern Willets, Glossy Ibis,
Among the 54 species I saw at Cupsogue Beach County Park in Suffolk Co this
morning were 5 Marbled Godwits - they were foraging together at the edge of
the bay when I first saw them, then split into two groups around 8am. Other
birds interesting to me were the first Yellow-crowned Night-Heron I've