Thanks to Karen Rubinstein's directions and a weekend home from school, I finally managed to connect with a Baird's Sandpiper after many many tries. Then, not only was there one Baird's, but both birds continue from yesterday on the remaining flats just northwest of the parking lot. There is very little flats remaining so the birds may not remain for much longer. Other birds of note were 2 Pectoral Sandpipers in the vicinity of the aforementioned Baird's and 72 American Golden Plovers seen circling the sod field on Osborne Ave in Riverhead. They landed west of the sod field behind the apple orchard. No Buff-breasted Sandpipers seen on Osborne Ave nor on the Head of the Neck Rd sod field. Good Birding, Menachem --
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