Gulling along the barrier beaches on Long Island was not as productive as I
thought it would be with only 5 Lesser Black-backed Gulls in total. Even the
crisp Juvenile Herring Gulls all seemed to have moved on. Only a few seen today.
I decided then to turn my attention to Shorebirds, after I realized I might
have a chance at breaking double digits. No small feat in November.
I ended up with 15 species of Shorebirds; far better than many of those
grueling summer days, spent schlepping the East Pond at Jamaica Bay.
The Shorebird highlights included STILT SANDPIPER (1) at Jones Beach in the
swale. The reported Baird's Sandpiper from that location is in fact a
White-rumped Sandpiper and robbed me of number 16.
PECTORAL SANDPIPER, HUDSONIAN GODWIT (s), LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER and LESSER
YELLOWLEGS all from "puddle birding" at Heckscher State Park. That location
also had 2 juvenile White-rumped Sandpipers who by now have lost some of their
sheen. I spent most of my afternoon there, listening for and watching the
movement of birds around me. Listening paid off as I picked up the Lesser
Yellowlegs and the Long-billed Dowitcher, neither of which stuck around for too
long.
Birds seemed at Heckscher seemed a bit more jumpy than I am accustomed to and I
am not sure if that was all about the Peregrine or other factors in play.
I doubled back at Jones Beach West End as light faded hoping to pad my Lesser
Black-backed numbers but that was a bust. Perhaps, they were all scared off by
all the holiday monstrosities that now line the roads in West End.
Cheers,
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"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of
others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." ~ Frederick
Douglass
風 Swift as the wind
林 Quiet as the forest
火 Conquer like the fire
山 Steady as the mountain
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Andrew Baksh
www.birdingdude.blogspot.com
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