I finished an interesting weekend of birding when I left the RUFF (at the north end of the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge) in the last vestiges of twilight this evening. Hopefully it will remain overnight, giving additional birders the opportunity to appreciate its unique beauty. Thank you Andrew and Heydi for the discovery and quick post.
Lila Fried and I spent a productive but tiring weekend sampling New York's early summer avifauna. We began Saturday morning with Boreal Chickadee, Black-backed Woodpecker and Ruffed Grouse in the Adirondacks, before moving on to the shorebirds and rails of Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge west of Rochester. At last light we were serenaded by Sora as we tried to stave off exsanguination by an infinite mosquito army. This morning we enjoyed a Redheaded Woodpecker and Caspian Terns on the shore of Lake Ontario in Hamlin, followed by a Clay-colored Sparrow in Canandaigua before lunch with the Bald Eagles and Trumpeter Swans of Montezuma NWR. We got back to the city just in time to see the Ruff which appears to be a different individual than the one seen a few days ago at Montezuma. I heart New York birding. Rich Fried New York City 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/ --
