On the eve of tomorrow's Shorebird Festival at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in Queens NY, I did another scout of the pond. There was a slight increase of shorebirds and I am hopeful we will get more coming in tonight.
A total of 15 species of shorebirds , including the Marbled Godwit, which was again seen midway on the pond along the East Side. As far as the pond conditions, while the water level, is better than it was a few days ago after the torrential rain. Much of the north end still remains quite tricky to navigate with not much shoreline as one would expect for this time of the year. I have whipped up a post with some recommendations on how to navigate the pond along with photos of recent shorebirds observed ( http://birdingdude.blogspot.com/2014/08/annual-shorebird-festival-at-jamaica.html). Here is to good weather with good shorebirds tomorrow. Cheers, -- 風 Swift as the wind 林 Quiet as the forest 火 Conquer like the fire 山 Steady as the mountain Sun Tzu <http://refspace.com/quotes/Sun_Tzu> *The Art of War* <http://refspace.com/quotes/The_Art_of_War> (\__/) (= '.'=) (") _ (") 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/ --
