Resisting the urge to join the search party in Brooklyn. This morning, I dropped in for a bit on the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in Queens.
Highlights included: EURASIAN WIGEON - the drake continues, although quite elusive having not seen it since the day I first spotted it. Even today, it disappeared once I got a digiscoped documentation shot. RED KNOT (1), WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER (1) and SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER (1). Good number of Dunlins are still passing through with 420 today. The flock of Snow Geese has doubled to about 800 and I managed to scan them thoroughly with no disturbance. No Ross's but I did enjoy looks at 6 Blue Morphs, 16 juveniles and 4 banded with neck collars. Other usual waterfowl numbers remain steady with the only noticeable jump in Green-winged Teal, tallied at 410. Cheers From The Bay! "Don't start none, won't be none" - Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones 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/ --
