Re: [nysbirds-l] Stellar Flight on Barrier Beach

2010-05-15 Thread fresha2411
Cuckoo Solitary Sandpiper Good Birding -Doug Gochfeld. Brooklyn, NY. -Original Message- From: Shaibal Mitra To: NYSBIRDS (NYSBIRDS-L@cornell.edu) Sent: Sat, May 15, 2010 6:47 pm Subject: [nysbirds-l] Stellar Flight on Barrier Beach Evidently, the passage of last night's cold fron

[nysbirds-l] Stellar Flight on Barrier Beach

2010-05-15 Thread Shaibal Mitra
Evidently, the passage of last night's cold front was such that many Neotrops were tempted a-flight by southwest winds early in the eve, drifted out over the New York Bight, then caught out when the winds turned northwest. Under these conditions, nocturnal migrants drop in as soon as they reach