Leading a bird walk on NYC's Governors Island (where NYC Audubon has a summer residency) this afternoon, we encountered a surprising diversity of shorebirds at some unprepossessing mud-puddles in a construction area. The spot is along Enright Road (not labelled on all maps), to the SE of The Hills. You have to peek through a construction fence to see the puddles.
On one puddle was a Solitary Sandpiper alongside a single Lesser Yellowlegs and a lone female Green-winged Teal. In another puddle nearby were 11 Least Sandpipers and 6 Semipalmated Sandpipers, as well as a pair of Killdeer. This spot seems like a prime locale for a Pectoral or other rarer "grasspiper" to potentially show up as well. Little in the way of songbird diversity here today, with a lone Black-and-white Warbler being the only migrant passerine noted. Good birding, Gabriel WillowNYC Audubon -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
