Hi Everyone, I was out all day starting at Jamaica Bay and went out east to Dune Road stopping at several spots along the way. Hghlights were: Jamaica Bay East Pond: Black and Yellow Crowned Night Herons, Glossy Ibis, Black Skimmers, Jamaica Bay West Pond: immature Little Blue Heron marsh west of West Pond trail: Tri-Colored Heron, Short Billed Dowitcher, Clapper Rail, Yellowlegs Oceanside Marine Nature Study Area: Saltmarsh Sparrows Jones Beach Coast Guard Marina/ sandbar: 2 Common Loons (nonbreeding plumage), Red Breasted Merganser, continuing female Greater Scaup, Gulled Billed Tern Captree Island ~100 Glossy Ibis Dune Road: Short Billed Dowitchers, Black Skimmers
Good birding, Rob in Massapequa http://longislandbirding.blogspot.com/ pics and more details will be included on my blog over the next few days -- 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/ --
