Documenting birds like this isn't just a chore, it can be very useful to our understanding of bird occurrence.
The days around the solstice are an under-appreciated window for landbird vagrancy. The only American Pipit I've ever seen on Long Island during June was found at Robert Moses SP by Tom Burke and Gail Benson on 25 June 2006, and that bird showed characters consistent with the subspecies that breeds in the Rocky Mountains, as opposed to the Arctic-breeding birds that are common here fall through spring: https://flic.kr/s/aHsm38dv5B Other interesting birds that have occurred within a few hundred yards and a few calendar days of that pipit include Western Kingbird and Williamson's Sapsucker, the latter 21 years ago today. Shai Mitra Bay Shore ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Dawn Hannay [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2017 8:34 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [nysbirds-l] Pipit at Nickerson Beach Long Island Did anyone else report or get photos of the American Pipit at Nickerson Beach yesterday? It was pointed out to Gina Goldstein and Adele Gotlib and me yesterday by Rich Fried and Rob Bate. It was going in and out of the dunes near the pool where the Piping Plovers nests are. We had good looks through the scope. I reported it to eBird but without photos the report will likely not be accepted. Dawn Hannay -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
