a group of birders, including me, worked the field(s) according to curt McDermott's notes. after working the area for the bird with no luck after 3 hours, and I, myself feeling perhaps a little crestfallen, at rich guthrie's suggestion, we worked the fields again, this time walking straight out of the parking lot, more or less, walking out towards the blind near the pond in a due east direction, as curt put it, 150 yards out or so. as we worked the fields, the bird popped up and went airborne from behind us. we literally walked right passed this little bugger and did not know it. the bird actually did this to us two or three times, before we finally located the bird, more or less in front of the parking lot, near the edge of a small standing pool of water. There, the bird froze within 10 feet of us. we almost passed it by again !
other birds at the refuge included the expected upland sandpiper, bobolink, meadowlark, kestrel, harrier and so on. regards, John Askildsen Millbrook, New York -- 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/ --
