23 species of shorebirds for the day birding at Jamaica Bay Queens, a couple of sod farms on Long Island, Pikes Beach and the Cupsogue Flats on Long Island.
Highlights included, WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER, MARBLED GODWIT and PIPING PLOVER while birding at Pikes Beach with Ken Fuestel. BAIRD's SANDPIPER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER and AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER while birding a few sod farms on Long Island, with Tom Burke and Gail Benson Ended my shorebird run at Cupsogue LI where I joined Patricia Lindsay, Shai Mitra, Doug Futuyma and Jim Cullen for looks at the continuing HUDSONIAN GODWIT, 7 MARBLED GODWITS and 1 WHIMBREL among the other usual species of shorebirds on the flats. An Interesting observation in terms of shorebird migration was the movement of PECTORAL SANDPIPERS while on the Cupsogue Flats. We observed 3 flocks totaling 23; they never put down but kept on moving. Sent from somewhere in the field using my mobile device! Andrew Baksh www.birdingdude.blogspot.com -- 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/ --
