Yesterday I had a juvenile Forster's Tern at Hamburg Town Park, along with 38 Boneparte's, 122 Ring-Billed and 16 Herring Gulls.
This past Sunday I observed a juvenile Cooper's Hawk fly low along the edge of the cattail marsh at Times Beach. The bird flushed 2 Spotted Sandpipers - one of which dove into the water to avoid capture! The bird popped up and flew away after being submerged for 2-4 seconds - I have never observed this sort of behavior in a Spotty of any other shorebird species. Joe Fell Buffalo, NY joetf1...@aol.com -- 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/ --
