This afternoon I wandered around the Cupsogue Flats and found the following: 5 Marbled Godwits, 10 Black Skimmers (juveniles and adults) 2 Eastern Willets, 2 Royal Terns and big flocks of DC cormorants, sanderlings, black bellied plovers and snowy/great egrets.
For some photos, please visit this link: http://birdsoflongisland.blogspot.com/2011/09/marbled-godwits.html -- - Luke Ormand, Flanders www.birdsoflongisland.blogspot.com www.wildlongisland.blogspot.com -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
