We visited HSP this evening in hopes of seeing migrating nighthawks. As we drove the oval we briefly stopped in Field 7, which still has standing water from the latest rainfall. The only shorebird present was a Baird's Sandpiper that was frightened away by someone operating a remote-controlled model car that ran through the puddle where the Baird's was standing! This is the second Baird's that we have seen in a parking lot puddle in the last week - perhaps a previously unidentified habitat sometimes used by this species on migration. Also seen from Field 7 were two Royal Terns flying west along the shore of Great South Bay. We were having no luck with nighthawks until we had almost left the park when six Common Nighthawks were observed heading south high over the roadway. This was close to 8:00PM.
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