I checked the spit at Myers around 8 this morning especially to look for any migrating birds forced down by yesterday’s storm. I passed Jay on the way in and, because he did not signal anything unusual, I wasn’t expecting much. One of the resident SPOTTED SANDPIPERS flew up the creek as I drove up. And there was the usual congregation of Ring-billed and Herring Gulls both on the spit and the woody debris just offshore - accompanied by several Double-crested Cormorants. A Killdeer was giving alarm calls from the beach. Going to check it out, I spotted first one, then a second SANDERLING running along the shoreline - first north, then south, under the new swimming dock and beyond. I called Jay to come back and settled in to keep an eye on them. Unfortunately, I got distracted by my eBird app as I tried to enter the morning’s birds. When I finally looked up, the Sanderlings were gone.
I am new to the eBird-app-on-phone thing and, while I find it handy, it is also addicting (and distracting)! So I have to figure out some sort of work flow that doesn’t detract from actually looking for and observing birds. Bob McGuire -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
