Today started with an enjoyable, "Condo" horseshoe tournament in Riverhead.
This was followed by a "Group for the East End " program in Southold, given by Dr. Judith Weis, of SUNJ Rutgers Newark, on her co-authored book, Salt Marshes: A Natural and Unnatural History. Heading home on Sound Ave in Riverhead, I noticed a lone Turkey Vulture feeding in a short, rye grass field, on the s/s of the road, a short distance w/o Pier Ave, and located on the w/s of a gray barn marked John Kujawski & Sons, L.I. Potatoes. This was a juvenile bird, whose head color had as much brown in it, as it did red. As I approached to get better photos, it took off... but not far! I continued on to see what it had been working on, and found a fly covered carcass, which I took to be the remains of a Woodchuck. I've included the detailed location of the remaining morsels, on the assumption there is at least one other person on the North Fork, who may want to see a returning T.V., that may have been born nearby! Thinking this to be the end of a very satisfying day, I was surprised when the cell phone rang, with Eileen Schwinn describing the Buff-breasted Sandpiper she was looking at in Eastport, on the sod farm located on e/s of Route 51, about 100 yds. n/o County Rd. 111, and directly opposite the "bicycle trail". I was there in 15 min's...and so was my FOS "buffy"! Unfortunately, the A. Golden Plover she found earlier in the day in the sod field directly behind, and to the east of the above field (where they fly the minature planes) had "flown the coop". Cheers, Bob -- 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/ --
