My sister Barbara and I birded Napeague Harbor in Amagansett, NY by kayak today. Every summer there are numbers of terns that lounge by the shellfish hatchery floats and that was our destination. We counted around 200 terns in the area, the majority being Common Terns, including at least 25-30 Black Terns. A few were adults in breeding plumage with others being young and adults in various stages of molt. There were around 30 Least Terns on the beach.
We saw around 40 shorebirds in the area, a majority being Ruddy Turnstones, around 10 Semi-Palmated Plovers, at least 2 Piping Plovers, 5 Black-bellied Plovers and 1 Oystercatcher. The bird of the day was a WHIMBREL -- a species we had not seen there before. Karen Rubinstein East Hampton, NY -- 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/ --
