Had a beautiful day at the JB Marsh Planting. Highly recommend volunteering:
http://plantjune2nd.eventbrite.com/ And got to do some bird watching the rest of the day. Plenty of horseshoe crabs but unfortunately no Red Knots in the vicinity. However, did have Black-bellied Plover and Ruddy Turnstones. Large flocks of Semipalmated peeps have arrived. Lots of Laughing Gulls, Fosters Terns, Mute Swans, Great Egrets, and some Glossy Ibis and nesting Ospreys. JB preserve is filled with the sounds of Yellow Warblers, Catbirds, Redwings and Tree Swallows. Also a few Towhees, Brown Thrashers, and House Wrens. One poorly marked Dunlin and a few rafts of impressively breeding Ruddy Ducks in the East Pond. South of the West Pond were Yellow-crowned Night Herons and Little Blues. On the north side were a few Willets and a couple of chattering Clapper Rails - got to see one jump up into the air for a few seconds. Happy Birding, Alan Drogin -- 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/ --
