Fourth day in a row at the same Stratford, Connecticut location, a
Northern Wheatear was again reported early Tuesday, 8 September - but
also note the caution on local construction work resuming around there.
Good birding,
Tom Fiore,
Manhattan
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Hello all,
Today JulIe and I started our 3-4 day vacation/excursion/cone crop survey
of the Adirondacks. At Ferd's Bog, which has
never been that productive for me, was a family group of 1 female and 2
young THREE-TOED WOODPECKERS!! It was
awesome and a lifer for Julie. They were about halfway b
Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, Queens, NY
9/8/09
Although there weren't many shorebirds, there was a nice variety, including the
continuing avocets and Wilson's phalarope.?I observed?17 species?from 11 AM to
2 PM, most of these in the north end of the East Pond.
Black-bellied Plover
Amer
This evening around 5:30pm, two Common Nighthawks were hunting in the open
field on the border of East Northport and Commack on Clay Pitts Road. The
birds caught my attention when I was driving home and looked into the field
with two birds that had the distinct nighthawk flight and behavior. I
Dune Road Beaches and Heckscher SP 8 Sep
Joe Giunta Debbie Martin and I (Sy Schiff) birded the bay side mud flats off
Dune Road this afternoon at dead low tide. The Summer crowds were gone and
there were no tolls to park. We birded looking north at the bay islands and
sand bars as seen from th
Tom:
Thank you for the heads-up. I left about 2 AM on 9/8/09 and saw the Sand Plover
spcies from about 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM along with about 7 others. Per the
directions in the postings to the Days Inn in Stauton VA it was an easy find.
In the beginning the birds flushed then settled and there w