today jim cullen and I spent several hours birding cupsogue beach.there was an extensive low tide flat as the strong north winds kept water out of the bay.we approached via skiff and located an extensive tern colony on the extreme bayside of the flats.besides several hundred common terns we picked out four roseate terns,all in breeding plumage with a beautiful wash of pink.we tried hard but could not pick out an arctic tern that has been reported recently.also we counted 26 red knot (none of which we could see were banded) thanks lee stocker
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