Hello All, Dick Belanger and I were quite pleased this early morn to find the flats at Cupsogue empty of all the usual: numerous and quite serious clam muckers, noisy bayside scamperers, large running dogs , but most particularly that deafening, MOSQUITO CONTROL HELICOPTER that has twice, just recently, made shorebird viewing at Cupsogue flats a lost cause for us. Without the aforementioned we were treated to unobstructed and lengthy views of 6 Marbled Godwits and a juvenile Whimbrel. Four of the Godwits, the Whimbrel and 2 "Western" Willets preened and rested for almost an hour together across the little channel that feeds the encroaching tide from the west. The two other Marbled's were casually feeding/napping just to the east of them. Dowitchers,Turnstones, and Greater Yellowlegs were about but the "peeps" had less presence today and there was no sign of the Black Terns. Good August Birding, Carl Starace
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