I can understand the avocet excitement. In July 2014 I ran into Chris Letts at Croton Point swimming beach. I was sitting on bench w morning coffee. He walked down to shoreline and waved me down — American Avocet. Fortunately another CPP regular was there Jim Bourdan who got photo — to date it’s the last avocet reported in Westchester. Certainly my only avocet in-County. Because of tide it lasted perhaps an hour after Chris found it. Here’s the 7/14/14 ebird report https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S19107117
L. Trachtenberg Ossining Sent from my iPhone On Aug 23, 2019, at 9:48 AM, TURNER <redk...@optonline.net<mailto:redk...@optonline.net>> wrote: -CAUTION: EXTERNAL EMAIL how far is a tad? On August 23, 2019 at 2:23 AM robert adamo <radamo4...@gmail.com<mailto:radamo4...@gmail.com>> wrote: After reading Arie Gilbert's post re: finding an A. Avocet at "Mecox" this AM (although his coordinates put the bird at the Tiana Beach Bay Side Marina, Dune Rd., E. Quogue) I found this Avocet at 4:30 PM, just a tad east of the marina, at the sandy beach built up by the breach caused by our last hurricane. This evening, upon reading the posts of Chris Gangemi and Anthony Collerton, I see we almost assuredly had 2 of this species here on the East End Thursday ! I first saw this species on 6/17/75 in Montana, which was followed by my first in NYS on 8/31/78 at JBWR, and then by my first in Nassau County on 9/24/04, at the Oceanside Marsh. Therefore, today's sighting was quite special for me, being my very first AMAV in Suffolk County...my home county ! Cheers, Bob -- NYSbirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L> ABA<http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- -- NYSbirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L> ABA<http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- -- 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/ --
