[nysbirds-l] CRESLI Whale Watch, August 25

Dave Klauber, Bob Kurtz, Bobby Rossetti and I birded on the CRESLI whale watch out of Montauk on Tuesday August 25. The seas were calm and the birds were good. Highlights included 75 Cory's shearwaters, 3 greater shearwaters, 1 manx shearwater, 210 Wilson's storm-petrels, 4 black terns, 5 red

[nysbirds-l] 8/25- Brooklyn Hudsonian Godwit, Golden Plovers + JBWR shorebirds

This morning and early afternoon I birded Plum Beach and the East Pond at Jamaica Bay. At Plum Beach the highlight was a fading adult HUDSONIAN GODWIT that I found right around 7:00 AM and fed actively for most of its stay until it suddenly flew off at 7:43 AM. It headed south and gained

[nysbirds-l] Jamaica Bay refuge

Hi, I am a Connecticut birder who is visiting Jamaica Bay this Friday for the first time and was looking at it on Google Maps and it is very big! I know there are lots of birds there, but I don't know where in the refuge they are. If anyone could tell me where in the refuge I could find the

[nysbirds-l] Winthrop Great Egret Roost/Migration/Bats, etc.

8/25/09 Potsdam (St. Lawrence Co.) (Various times between midnight and 2 a.m.) I don't get much sleep this time of year with migration under way. Last night, (clear), I counted 10 to 11 calls per minute (more thrush calls mixed in last night). Also, bats were swooping around me - great to

[nysbirds-l] Hudsonian Godwit reported at Plum Beach BKLYN NY...

Doug Gochfeld just called to report seeing a Hudsonian Godwit at Plum Beach in Brooklyn. It is on the outer flats 1/2 to the East. Thanks Andrew Baksh Queens NY www.birdingdude.blogspot.com -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME