A few hours birding the East Pond this morning turned up a few decent birds.
The highlights were a Drake EURASIAN WIGEON and a LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER. Other notables included Pectoral Sandpiper, Western Sandpipers, White-rumped Sandpipers and a Stilt Sandpiper. With the arrival of a Eurasian Wigeon and American Wigeons, the waterfowl diversity, is increasing on the pond. Northern Pintails numbers are slowly growing with Green-winged Teals doubling from last week. Northern Shovelers and Blue-winged Teals have been around now for a couple of weeks adding to the usual waterfowl suspects. There was some Swallow movement but nothing significant to indicate a flight. Not much in terms of land birds but overall, it was a rather pleasant day on the pond. Later at Jones Beach Coast Guard Station, I was quite put off by the constant interruption of the roosting birds that were desperately trying to find any spot on the spit where they were not going to get overrun by the tourists (for lack of a better word). I did manage to pick out a Marbled Godwit on the far side of the bar where it was tucked in among Black Skimmers and American Oystercatchers. Cheers, 風 Swift as the wind 林 Quiet as the forest 火 Conquer like the fire 山 Steady as the mountain Sun Tzu <http://refspace.com/quotes/Sun_Tzu> *The Art of War* <http://refspace.com/quotes/The_Art_of_War> (\__/) (= '.'=) (") _ (") Sent from somewhere in the field using my mobile device! Andrew Baksh 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/ --
