Hi Everyone, I went looking for the Red Phalarope this morning starting around sunrise - I checked each of the west end ponds but did not see it - a lot of them have grown over and Canada Geese and Robins have moved in - still other shorebirds were present: Semi-Palmated Sandpipers/ Plovers, Killdeer, Least Sandpipers and a few Sanderlings. When leaving, saw a Horned Lark on the dunes.
I also checked the area by the Coast Guard Station but was not there either - what I did find instead were a lot of shorebirds on the sandbar - Semi-Palmated Sandpipers/ Plovers, Least Sandpipers, Sanderlings (some in beautiful plumage), Piping Plover, Spotted Sandpiper, Short Billed Dowitchers and at least 3 Red Knots. Number of all shorebirds on the sandbar were in the hundreds - 1000 is a good estimate. (I left around 7:30am.) Good shorebirding, Rob in Massapequa www.longisland.blogspot.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/ --
