Hello All, I Birded the mud flats for several hours this, quite chilly morning, with Dick Belanger. We arrived about 9 am, a little before dead low tide.The highlight at Cupsogue was 3 Marbled Godwits found feeding along the southside of Gull Island,[ directly inside Moriches Inlet]. There were also ten Greenwinged Teal,"lazing", on the bar in front of the Godwits. We had a Forster's Tern, a few lingering Common's, 4 Least Sandpiper, numerous BB Plover and Sanderling, 10 Greater Yellowlegs, 15 Great Blue Heron, 68 Black Skimmers, a few Red Breasted Nuthatch along the sand track to the inlet, 2 Northern Harrier and several American Kestrals. The bar at Pikes held 37 Royal Terns , one Caspian Tern and a single Ruddy Turnstone. Good September Birding, Carl Starace
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