Early this morning Michael Duffy and I checked out the flats at Mecox. Lots of common shorebirds but the highlight being a flock of 14 WHIMBREL that flew in while we were there.
Later we checked out Napeague and braved the Mosquitos long enough to get a single GRASSHOPPER SPARROW in the swale beyond Walking Dunes. Philip Dempsey and Ryan Walker skipped birding and surfed at Montauk in the morning, besting us with a sighting of a beached SPERM WHALE. Sent from my iPhone -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
