If’s summer and post season breeding time. Willets have fledged and adults and young have all completely moved on; the same for Tree Swallows. Still swallows continue over the marsh, but now are all Barn. Young birds that remain are Clapper Rails, Green Herons, visiting Forster’s terns, Saltmarsh Sparrow and Yellow Warblers. Seaside Sparrows and Marsh Wrens did not bred on the territory this year.
A Ruby-throated Hummingbird showed up last week in the area that attract them, but not seen since. A scattering of shorebirds were there today, both Semipalmated Plover and Sandpiper, and Least Sandpiper, a stray Greater Yellowlegs and not much else. Fronts lately are from the west and winds from the south, We need a weather change, Sy Schiff Sent from Mail for Windows 10 -- 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/ --
