Diane Brown and I had them in an onion field on the right hand side of
the road just after the first barn when the road becomes dirt at 11:30
am. They were panting in the heat. We saw them flying around before
they landed.
Beverly Robertson
Upper Greenwood Lake, NJ
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Multiple observers were present and observing the previously reported Baird's
Sandpipers at both the below locations this morning:
The Baird's Sandpiper at Floyd Bennett Field continued at the runway puddles
adjacent to the Cricket Field at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn this morning,
in th
There continues to be lots of shorebirds at Montezuma. The Knox-Marcellus
Marsh is a very impressive show, especially for an inland location. Also,
the pool next to the Refuge headquarters has prime habitat for shorebirds as
well. Saturday, the latter pool held mostly just yellowlegs (a few Grea
This morning Sun 8-29, at 9:23am the American Avocet landed in the same
mudflat it was in yesterday. It is located at the south western mudflat
+40° 37' 7.95", -73° 37' 16.57" (
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40.618876,+-73.621270&num=1&t=h&vps=1&jsv=270a&sll=40.724189,-73.68765&sspn=0.006295,0.006
There was a nice morning flight at Robert Moses SP, Suffolk Co., yesterday
morning (28 Aug 10).
Swallows were moving heavily, passing at a rate of ca. one per second through
the morning. Barns outnumbered Trees by about four to three, Banks were easy to
find (we estimated ca. 50), and we noted
A number of posts to this and other regional lists have mentioned Red-
breasted Nuthatch being seen in varying numbers. Some of the area &
regional hawk-watch sites have been reporting these in up to high
double-digit numbers (on a single day) and it will be interesting to
see if the moveme