We spent the better part of the morning at WE2 anticipating a good movement on northwest winds. Upon arriving at WE2 at 6:45AM we noticed the winds appeared to be W/NW. Nevertheless, birds were moving down the beach, mostly Cedar Waxwings and Robins. In less than a half hour the winds were coming solely out of the west and the movement ground to a halt. Highlights were a perched Common Nighthawk in the median, four flyby Bobolinks, two Baird's Sandpipers on the east side of the (flooded, but rapidly drying) swale and a late Gull-billed Tern in Jones Inlet. The flooded swale had both Blue and Green-winged Teal while the flats on the south side of Meadow Island in Jones Inlet had approx. two hundred Black Skimmers.
The highlight of the day was a call from Shai Mitra as we were headed home (about 12:00PM) telling us that he and Pat Lindsay had relocated Bob Paxton's Lark Sparrow at Robert Moses State Park Field 2. More specifically,the bird was at the west end of the parkway east of the four-wheel drive entrance road. Upon arriving the bird had flown off into the RMSP golf course. Shortly thereafter, it flew out of the golf course and into the middle of the closed northwestern exit of RMSP Field 2 (north of the dumpster). It remained in the general vicinity feeding on crabgrass seeds when we left about 1:00PM. Reported By Others: Tom Burke reported that an American Golden Plover and Stilt Sandpiper briefly flew into the north end of the swale at WE2 in the mid-morning, but did not stay long. Ken & Sue Feustel -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
