Jamaica Bay WR; Gateway National Park I arrived 5 minutes late. No Ruff, at least for the next hour.
I stopped by the office. In the distant past (more years than any current staff is aware), July 4 marked the beginning of the shore birding season there. Today, in contrast, it was a quagmire and it won't get better till at least MID-AUGUST at the earliest. The management of the facility comes under the Gateway National Park and they direct what is done at Jamaica Bay. Dealing with the very competent young lady in charge is useless since she is not in control of the drawdown date. Please don't harass her as I did a pretty good job today (for which I apologize). My intent was to try to determine who was making this, in my view, totally bad decision. If we as birders want to change this, we'll need to find out who to approach at a higher level. Help anyone?? Sy Schiff -- 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/[email protected]/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/ --
