Re: [nysbirds-l] Plum Beach flagged Semipalmated Sandpipers etc.

2015-05-30 Thread Robert Taylor
I had one last July by the Jones Beach Coast Guard Station, also from Brazil...tag was "UCH". Always cool to find out about tagged birds On Friday, May 29, 2015, Doug Gochfeld wrote: > Yesterday afternoon, while watching the Franklin's Gull at the eastern tip > of Plum Beach, a flock of Semipal

[nysbirds-l] Plum Beach flagged Semipalmated Sandpipers etc.

2015-05-29 Thread Doug Gochfeld
Yesterday afternoon, while watching the Franklin's Gull at the eastern tip of Plum Beach, a flock of Semipalmated Sandpipers came in to feed on the shoreline, and it contained a bird with a blue flag on its leg, which was put on in Brazil. Unfortunately it was a bit too distant, and it the flock st