I stopped at Plum Beach (about 45 mins. after Low Tide) and Floyd Bennett Field on the way out to Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge this morning. Birds of interest were as follows: Plum Beach Seaside Sparrow (1 juvenile, not sure if they nested here this summer) White-rumped Sandpiper (2 calling flybys) Bank Swallow (1) Least Tern (4 juveniles)
Floyd Bennett Field White-rumped Sandpiper (For those who don't want to trudge around the East Pond for a NYC WR Sandpiper, it was in the runway puddles that have hosted Baird's and Stilt Sandpiper the last two years) JBWR (East Pond) American Golden Plover (Adult, north end, on both sides of the cove. First it was by itself before joining the group of 160 Black-bellied Plovers after one of the Peregrine's run-throughs) Pectoral Sandpiper (2, one at the very south end, one on the island at the north end) Stilt Sandpiper (6, north end, where'd the rest go?) Red Knot (1, north end with Plovers) Ruddy Turnstone (1, Island at north end) There are now numerous juveniles of Least Sandpiper and Lesser and Greater Yellowlegs (as well as 4 juvenile Spotted Sandpipers). There were multiple Peregrine Falcon flybys at all 3 locations, and it was especially annoying on the East Pond where a Peregrine "re-organized" the shorebirds 6 times in just 1.5 hours, chasing a good portion of birds off of the pond, even before high tide. Good Birding Doug Gochfeld. Brooklyn, NY. -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES Temporary archive: http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
