Late this morning through early afternoon (11:45-2:00), 18 of the 20 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS reported by Derek Rogers yesterday were visible at low tide, on the mud flats 200-300 yards west of the entrance road bridge over Sunken Meadow Creek. Unfortunately they never made a closer approach. Other shorebirds included 2 Greater Yellowlegs and a Killdeer. Also present in the vicinity of the Pecs was a male COMMON TEAL (Eurasian Green-winged). Unlike the bird at Hempstead Lake, this one exhibited no apparent hybrid characters, having no trace of vertical white bars on its sides, just easily seen white scapular bars. It was too distant to tell whether its white facial markings were bolder than those of several male G-w Teal nearby.
After leaving the park I spotted a single Turkey Vulture cruising over the Sagtikos/Southern State parkway interchange. -- 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/ --
