Last email of the day. For those who have not been on the pond yet this year just a few notes.
Water level is good now. Plenty of shore exposed around the pond. Maybe too much. This heat has exposed loads of shore now. Dead mans cove is easily passable and I think is less mucky than prior years. The area where you first walk out to the pond in the west edge of the north end has a deep water area caused from Sandy I guess. Just stay to your left as much as possible and hug the phrags when you walk out, go onto the spit and then go to the west edge. The last 20 feet before you get onto the pond is the muddiest/muckiest area of the pond. Last week I sunk in up to my knee. It has dried up quite a bit since then. The entrance to the pond now has gravel at the front. It is very obvious but not exactly where it use to be. Isaac Grant Senior Loan Officer On Jul 19, 2013, at 5:14 PM, Isaac Grant <[email protected]> wrote: > All of the birds on the north end of the pond flushed at around 4:45. I was > not able to refind the bird but I am sure it is still here. Andrew first had > the bird on the south end of the pond so you need to check everywhere. > > The numbers of Stilt Sandpipers is up by a lot saw 20+ birds > Semi-palmated Plovers are now in. Over 100 seen > 2 pectoral sandpipers > 1 Red Knot > 1 adult Western Sandpiper still in pretty good plumage > A couple thousand semi-palmated sandpipers and 1,000 + Short-billed Dowitchers > Lots of yellowlegs of both types, Leasts > > Not seen were the white rump or long-billed dowitcher I had on Wednesday > > Isaac Grant > Senior Loan Officer > -- > > 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/ > > -- > > -- 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/ --
