There were at least six from about 7:00 - 8:00 pm at the eastern end of Robert
Moses, not far from the Fire Island Light House, around 40.629629, -73.217616.
A nice variety of ages and stages of molt. I'll post photos to the New York
birders facebook page.
Bob LewisSleepy Hollow NY
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Blistering Barnacles!
I had heard the bird in question was first thought to be a Pectoral Sandpiper.
Subsequently, I did see Angus’s questions on the ID and thought about asking
for the checklists with photos but alas I procrastinated.
Are the photos available? I would have loved to see what t
It seems that in this age of hyper-connectivity, false information travels more
easily than true. Whereas the good-news story of a Baird's Sandpiper at
Nickerson Beach, Nassau County, Long Island, propagated quickly and decisively,
the uncomfortable awareness that the bird in question was actual
RBA
*New York
July 08 2019
NYSY 07. 08. 19
Hotline: Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert
To report by email: brinjoseph AT yahoo DOT com
Reporting upstate counties: Onondaga, Oswego, Madison, Oneida, Herkimer,
Cayuga,
Montezuma Wildlife Refuge and Montezuma Wetlands Complex
Thank you to those who have shown an interest and offered suggestions and
support for the East Pond management.
Angus, your thoughts echo some of what I had submitted in my comments on the
GNRA General Management Plan a few years ago. As I suggested before, it may be
time to have that discussi
Having worked as a wetland delineator for the past four-plus decades, slogging
through mud has become too much more like work than recreation, so I have
largely stopped going to the East Pond, However, on my past few visits I have
seen green paint-colored water in the pond, and the likely culpri
