Lloyd
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From: btb...@yahoogroups.com [mailto:btb...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
Lloyd Spitalnik
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 9:57 PM
To: btb...@yahoogroups.com
Subject: (Metro Birding Briefs) gray-hooded gull update.
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A few days ago there was a post about the back field at Stillwell Woods
Preserve. Huntington Oyster Bay Audubon had requested that the county refrain
from mowing the field until sometime in the late fall in order to preserve the
habitat for birds, butterflies and other insects. We are meeting
Late afternoon low tide birds at Pikes Beach out front of the viewing
stand- 1 Marbled Godwit, 40 Royal Terns.Down the road at Cupsogue mudflats
Dick Belanger and I had 9 Royal Terns, 3 Black Terns, and a Clapper Rail.
We also found good numbers of Short billed Dowitchers, Ruddy Turnstones,
Gr
A long time ago I coined the term: "eyegasm" fwiw.
Arie Gilbert
No. Babylon, NY
On 8/2/2011 4:22 PM, Ken Thompson wrote:
I saw the Gray-hooded Gull this am at 7:30. There were birders from
Pennsylvania, Maryland and California there as well. One fellow was so
excited I thought about Bob Adamo
I saw the Gray-hooded Gull this am at 7:30. There were birders from
Pennsylvania, Maryland and California there as well. One fellow was so
excited I thought about Bob Adamo, earlier in the week, relaying the term
birdasm, further though led me to think that "ornigasm" might be a better
term.
On M
Jamaica Bay WR 2 Aug.
Joe Giunta and I (Sy Schiff) met Ken Thomson and Steve D'Amato in the parking
lot. They had just returned from a successful Gull sighting at Coney Island.
We walked down the Big Johns Pond Trail to the edge of the East Pond where Ken
picked out a sleeping bird on the far
The Hudsonian Godwit was present today, Aug.2. The bird was seen, scope
view, from the end of the path that passes by Big Johns Pond. The bird was
mixed in with Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs and many ducks. The view was not
easy and many thanks goes to Ken Thompson who stayed with the 'larger
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From: Phil Jeffrey
Date: Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 9:39 AM
Subject: [ebirdsnyc] Gray-hooded/headed Gull yes
To: eBirdsNYC
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In front of restrooms at or around W12th about halfway from boardwalk to
shore. Sitting down at 0940.
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Phil Jeffrey
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