Nothing crazy to report from Breezy Point. Save for the breaches on the beach - in several places.
I spent a few hours this morning combing the beach and scanning the ocean. The highlights were 13-15 Dolphins frolicking around just off the tip. 279 Herring Gulls, 78 Great Black-backed Gulls, 14 Ring-billed Gulls and 27 Laughing Gulls were the only Gulls close enough to identify clearly with most loafing on the beach. 11 Common Terns and 5 Forster's Terns were the only Tern action. 550 Sanderlings, 13 Semipalmated Plovers, 15 Black-belied Plovers and 37 American Oystercatchers were the only shorebirds I noted on the beach. Land birds were quite scarce. All in all a very non eventful morning at Breezy Point in Queens. Earlier, a quick stop on the south end of the East Pond at Jamaica Bay resulted in the continuing Caspian Terns and a few shorebirds - all reported recently. No Avocet was seen from that end. Cheers, Land birds were all but scarce. -------- "I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." ~ Frederick Douglass 風 Swift as the wind 林 Quiet as the forest 火 Conquer like the fire 山 Steady as the mountain Sun Tzu The Art of War > (__/) > (= '.'=) > (") _ (") > Sent from somewhere in the field using my mobile device! Andrew Baksh www.birdingdude.blogspot.com -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --