After picking up a message last night from Leanor Chavez about the devastation on West Pond Trail at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, I hurried out there this morning to see the damage. Folks, lets just say that birding on the West Pond trail will be severely limited until the breach in the trail has been repaired.
A section of the West Pond trail was completely washed away and at the moment "salt water" from Pumpkin Channel is flowing freely into the fresh water West Pond. See pictures posted here<http://birdingdude.blogspot.com/2012/10/hurricane-sandy-devastes-west-pond.html>. http://bitly.com/Sl8Wef Let's hope that the damage could be addressed as quickly as possible!! Good Storm Birding!! Andrew Baksh Queens, NY www.birdingdude.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/ --
