Hi Glenn and all, The flats around Moriches Inlet do not have a unique pair of coordinates. In fact, the good spots to check in this area don't even really have a finite set of coordinates. They change from minute to minute, day to day, and year to year, and they are densely interspersed with places you probably don't want to be. What you want are directions to Pikes Beach and Cupsogue County Park (these are at the west end of Dune Rd, just east of Moriches Inlet, Suffolk County, Long Island), and then some good judgment in exploration of the tidal marshes and flats to the north of these well marked localities. The Red-necked Stint has been seen in many places in the five acre area directly north of the main parking lot at Cupsogue. The portions of this area that exposed at low tide but devoid of marsh vegetation are what people are referring to as "the flats."
Experience has shown that birds originally found in this area have often moved over to another patch of habitat a bit to the east, directly north of Pikes Beach (and vice versa); examples include a Red-necked Stint in July 2000 and a Curlew Sandpiper in June 2012, as well as innumerable less rare but individually distinctive shorebirds. Binary coordinates are not what you need--remember, there is an ecologically critical third dimension involved here, the vertical one, which allows for substrates to be variably immersed and exposed, according to tides and weather. Shai Mitra Bay Shore ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Glenn Wilson [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 5:29 PM To: Menachem Goldstein Cc: Birdingonthe.net Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] Red-necked Stint- Cupsogue Would someone mind giving me the coorordinates to the flats? Thank you Glenn Wilson Endicott, NY www.WilsonsWarbler.com ________________________________ Washington Monthly<http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/septemberoctober_2012/features/americas_bestbangforthebuck_co039461.php> magazine ranks the College of Staten Island as one of “America’s Best-Bang-for-the-Buck Colleges” -- 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/ --
