Yesterday morning I birded for a few hours on the incoming tide at Cupsogue County Park. Although shorebirding was a bit slow, the trip was highlighted by twenty-two Whimbrels. A flock of thirteen were on the far northern flat, while a flock of six were flybys. An additional three birds were scattered among the sandbars in Moriches Inlet and the tidal flats to the east. Five Royal Terns were on the sandbar in the Inlet. A stop at Shirley Marina on the way home yielded both Semipalmated and Least Sandpipers, Semipalmated Plovers, both Yellowlegs, and two Hendersoni Short-billed Dowitchers.
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