Last Friday I was fortunate enough to find an apparent juvenile Common Ringed Plover in Jamaica Bay while out kayaking. If accepted it would be a first county record for Kings and I believe the fifth or sixth for the state. Photos and notes can be found here:
https://ebird.org/checklist/S195807726 My apologies for the delay in reporting it more widely, though even at the time I don’t know how chaseable it was, given the location and weather conditions. I was suspicious of the bird in the field but hardly confident, and when I got home I actually forgot about it for a few days as family stuff intervened. I was reminded to go investigate my photos by the BirdCast article from Andrew Farnsworth, Doug Gochfeld, and Marshall Iliff that suggested being on the lookout for this species. Good birding, Joshua Malbin -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") NYSbirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/nysbirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) birding_DOT_aba_DOT_org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
