[nysbirds-l] Townsend's Warbler Updates

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[nysbirds-l] Gray-hooded Gull: Coney Island

You have to love New York or should I say love Coney Island! Thanks to the wonderful posts from New York birders I waited to 2:00pm to make the drive from NJ. When I arrived at Coney Island at 3:20pm (low tide was 2:04pm) I was somewhat disheartened by the thousands of people on the beach.

[nysbirds-l] Nickerson Beach: Large flocks of Terns, Skimmers and Oystercatchers

Yesterday, 12 August, my friend Bob Horton and I spent a productive afternoon at Jamaica Bay rewarded with views of Marbled and Hudsonian Godwits as well as the many other shorebirds described in earlier posts. Not wishing to battle commuting traffic back to New Jersey we headed east to the

[nysbirds-l] Mew Gull

The Mew Gull was present today at Graveshead Bay from 2:00pm to at least 2:15 with hundreds of Ring-billed Gulls . The bird was very easy to view on the pavement near the car pull-out east of the pedestrian bridge. Vincent F. Nichnadowicz Princeton Jct., NJ

[nysbirds-l] Mew Gull Description

The Mew Gull I viewed yesterday in Brooklyn was out of the water, resting/sleeping on a rock and offering excellent views of its legs at close range. They were colored gray/green not yellow (strongly contrasting with the Ring-billed Gulls). Using the large Sibley's guide, P. 213, I concluded