[nysbirds-l] "Out Oregon Way"
Today was a day that, at least in part, should have been spent out of doors ! So, it was at ~ 1500 I headed east to Cutchogue, and it's fall magnat...the sod fields around Oregon Road. On Depot Lane, s/o Oregon I met a couple who summer on L.I., but live in Maryland. They had seen Buff-breasted and Baird's Sandpipers on previous days, but not today, having to settle with some of the more common species, ie, semipalmated plovers. While still together, further east on Oregon, we came across a group of 5 Ospreys, who were spread out on an entire irrigation line, which ran north for the length of the sod field. Some on the wheels, some on the connecting pipes...I took this to be a family outing ! After they left I joined a solitary birder, who was checking out a group of shorebirds on the s/s of Oregon, e/o Depot. While Cathy Cammann and I were trying to I.D.the birds before us (mostly Semi-plovers, with some we couldn't I.D. due to not having a scope between us ) - what a time for my Kowa to show its age ! When the birds relocated closer to Depot, we chased them and were rewarded for our intrepidness with a close and well lit view of the buffy ! There were ~ 12-15 Semi-plovers across the entire field, plus a possible large plover, that I thought I had seen when I first joined Cathy, but couldn't relocate it ! Cheers, Bob -- 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/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
[nysbirds-l] "Out Oregon Way"
Today was a day that, at least in part, should have been spent out of doors ! So, it was at ~ 1500 I headed east to Cutchogue, and it's fall magnat...the sod fields around Oregon Road. On Depot Lane, s/o Oregon I met a couple who summer on L.I., but live in Maryland. They had seen Buff-breasted and Baird's Sandpipers on previous days, but not today, having to settle with some of the more common species, ie, semipalmated plovers. While still together, further east on Oregon, we came across a group of 5 Ospreys, who were spread out on an entire irrigation line, which ran north for the length of the sod field. Some on the wheels, some on the connecting pipes...I took this to be a family outing ! After they left I joined a solitary birder, who was checking out a group of shorebirds on the s/s of Oregon, e/o Depot. While Cathy Cammann and I were trying to I.D.the birds before us (mostly Semi-plovers, with some we couldn't I.D. due to not having a scope between us ) - what a time for my Kowa to show its age ! When the birds relocated closer to Depot, we chased them and were rewarded for our intrepidness with a close and well lit view of the buffy ! There were ~ 12-15 Semi-plovers across the entire field, plus a possible large plover, that I thought I had seen when I first joined Cathy, but couldn't relocate it ! Cheers, Bob -- 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/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
