Knowing that I would be out in the Eastport/Riverhead area for non-birding reasons, I made sure to bring my scope in order to look for grasspipers on the sod fields as soon as my obligations were done. The Eastport fields (Eastport Manor Rd. and Rte 51) yielded only a few Killdeer combined, so it was on to Riverhead. There, I started my search on the fields bordered by Doctor's Path, Northville Tpke, Rte. 105, and Sound Avenue. My vantage point was the firefighter training facility accessed from Northville Tpke, west of 105. I'd been scoping for barely 5 minutes when I spotted 6 birds foraging on a fallow field off to the west--BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS all. They were still there when I left at ~3:45. A subsequent check of the Osborn Ave. field turned up no further grasspipers of any kind.
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