http://www.elharo.com/blog/birding/2006/01/15/a-foggy-day-in-bay-ridge-with-a-gps/ Ranting and Raving Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:12:38 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.elharo.com/blog/birding/2006/01/15/a-foggy-day-in-bay-ridge-with-a-gps/comment-page-1/#comment-861126 Mokka mit Schlag » #477 Lapland Longspur Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:06:56 +0000 http://blog.elharo.com/blog/?p=95#comment-861126 [...] Heading up the way they proved to be Purple Sandpipers, the closest I’ve ever seen. I had a great deal of trouble finding these a few years ago, and now here they were right in front of me. Unfortunately they [...] [...] Heading up the way they proved to be Purple Sandpipers, the closest I’ve ever seen. I had a great deal of trouble finding these a few years ago, and now here they were right in front of me. Unfortunately they [...]

]]> http://www.elharo.com/blog/birding/2006/01/15/a-foggy-day-in-bay-ridge-with-a-gps/comment-page-1/#comment-968 Mokka mit Schlag » #341 and #342 with the BBC Mon, 27 Mar 2006 14:29:34 +0000 http://blog.elharo.com/blog/?p=95#comment-968 [...] Morgan Park is another one of Long island’s annoying “Residents Only” parks. but fortunately no one bothers to enforce these rules in the winter, so we just parked and walked in. We found the usual gulls and a couple of Mute Swans on the shore, but as soon as we reached the shoreline we could see a flock of a few dozen medium-sized birds wheeling out from the end of the jetty and then landing back in the rocks. Out came the scopes; and sure enough, it was about ten Ruddy Turnstones and approximately 20 Purple Sandpipers, my second life bird of the day. As you may also recall, I’ve been looking for Purple sandpiper for some time now without success. I had given up on them for this season. When nobody in New York found any on the Great Backyard Bird Count a month ago, I assumed they’d all headed north. However, perhaps this flock was one of the flocks from New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, or North Carolina just now making its way north. In any case, I can now confidently add this species to my life list. [...] [...] Morgan Park is another one of Long island’s annoying “Residents Only” parks. but fortunately no one bothers to enforce these rules in the winter, so we just parked and walked in. We found the usual gulls and a couple of Mute Swans on the shore, but as soon as we reached the shoreline we could see a flock of a few dozen medium-sized birds wheeling out from the end of the jetty and then landing back in the rocks. Out came the scopes; and sure enough, it was about ten Ruddy Turnstones and approximately 20 Purple Sandpipers, my second life bird of the day. As you may also recall, I’ve been looking for Purple sandpiper for some time now without success. I had given up on them for this season. When nobody in New York found any on the Great Backyard Bird Count a month ago, I assumed they’d all headed north. However, perhaps this flock was one of the flocks from New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, or North Carolina just now making its way north. In any case, I can now confidently add this species to my life list. [...]

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