A check of the sod farms in Eastport and Riverhead this afternoon was quite productive. I started in Eastport with the field on the west side of Eastport Manor Road. Among ~15 Killdeer was a single juvenile BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER. At times this bird foraged within 25 ft. of the road, in some longer grass near a generator inside a chain link fence. Up in Riverhead, on the Osborn Avenue field, there were 2 more Buffies, 15 AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVERS, and several Least Sandpipers. Farther east, on the field west of Route 105 and south of Sound Ave. were another 12 Golden Plovers. I found no shorebirds at all on the field just east of the Roanoke Vineyard, not even a Killdeer. Another 7 Goldens were on a field on the west side of Edwards Avenue, about halfway between Sound Ave. and Rte. 25.
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