With the continuing bad weather, most the bird action seems to be on, or near, the ocean. At RMSP Field 2 a one hour sea watch yielded three Cory's Shearwaters, five unidentified Shearwaters, three Royal Terns, and my FOS Bonaparte's Gull. At RMSP Field 5 a Parasitic Jaeger was on the ocean harassing passing Terns. At West End 2 there were numerous Black-bellied Plovers (no Golden's observed) on the bar in the marina, as well as Red Knot (16) and Short-billed Dowitcher (2). In the swale south of the WE2 parking lot there were fifty-five White-rumped Sandpipers, a number I have not observed in many years.
On Monday at RMSP there were two Lesser Black-backed Gulls, one each in the Field 2 and 5 parking lots. Ken 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/ --
