Late this morning I visited Sunken Meadow State Park at low tide to check out the shorebird situation on the exposed flats of the upper creek, west of the entrance road bridge. I found a modest mix of 6 species, dominated by ~400 Semipalmated Sandpipers. The other 5 species were Least Sandpiper (6 - 2 adults, 4 juveniles), Semipalmated Plover (8), Lesser Yellowlegs (7), Spotted Sandpiper (2), and Killdeer (2). An immature Peregrine put the shorebirds up once, but they eventually resettled. The flocks ranged around the flats on their own too, from as close as 25 ft. out to 200 yards. When the birds were close I spotted one Semi Sandpiper that wore a USFW band on its right leg and a green leg flag marked 56E on it's left. From the photos I took the band appears to bear the numbers 0571 over 4647. I'll submit this info to the bird banding lab to find out where the bird was captured.
John Gluth Sent from my iPhone -- 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/ --
