Yesterday, 12 August, my friend Bob Horton and I spent a productive afternoon at Jamaica Bay rewarded with views of Marbled and Hudsonian Godwits as well as the many other shorebirds described in earlier posts. Not wishing to battle commuting traffic back to New Jersey we headed east to the barriers islands. At the tip of Long Beach we explored the deserted Nickerson Beach from 7:00 to 8:00pm and we're amazed at the huge flocks of birds on the beach: 300+ Black Skimmers with many juveniles: 250+ common Terns with two Black Terns and two Roseate Terns (one banded); 275+American Oystercatchers; and an assortment of gulls mostly Great Black-backed. It was an incredible site and we had no traffic issues returning to NJ. Vincent Nichnadowicz Princeton Junction, NJ --
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