Spent a few hours birding the east end Sunday morning and early afternoon before heading home for Easter dinner.
Started at Mecox Bay, where the Caspian Terns seen yesterday were nowhere in sight today. Thankfully there was still one present at Sagg Pond, loafing on the flats at the pond's north end. Also seen at Sagg were 1 LEAST SANDPIPER, 13 Greater Yellowlegs, 11 Dunlin, and 365 Sanderling. A drive down Dune Road was not very productive, with a few Great Egrets seen, but no Snowies yet, nor any lingering American Bitterns. At Gabreskie Airport, a VESPER SPARROW was present just outside the self-storage facility at the north end of the perimeter road, as were Field and Chipping sparrows. Farther south a Horned Lark was doing display flights just inside the airport fence (landing in the roadway between flights), and 2 American Kestrel were hunting in the vicinity. https://www.flickr.com/photos/jgluth_brb/13934864521/in/set-72157639292692304 John Gluth Islip, NY -- 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/ --
