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From: gmr044@leah.Albany.Edu (Gregg Recer)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Birding the Cape.
Keywords: shorebirds, Monomoy
Message-ID: <3598@leah.Albany.Edu>
Date: 6 Sep 90 15:50:19 GMT
Organization: The University at Albany, Computer Services Center
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Greetings all,
    My wife and I took a long weekend over labor day and went to Cape
Cod for birding and bicycling.  Both activities were very productive.
We took a Mass. Audubon-led half-day trip to N. Monomoy Island (just
off the coast from Chatham).  The shorebirding there was good,
although not as spectacular as I've read it could be -- I realize one
day is not a very good measure of the overall productivity of the
place.  Anyway, the shorebird list included hudsonian godwits,
black-bellied and semipalmated plovers, Am. oystercatchers, and
semipalm., least, western sandpipers as well as greater and lesser
yellowlegs, short-billed dowitcher and whimbrel.  The three hot birds
seen earlier in the week, marbled godwit, curlew sandpiper and
buff-breasted sandpiper were all, alas, no-shows.  Apparently it was
too early for any coastal hawk migrants as we saw not a one.  Also,
the passerine migration seemed still to be dead-the-water out there.
Upon returning home our local club's hotline, updated on 8/31, was
also bemoaning the lack of migrant reports.  Are people in other areas
having similarly slow fall migrations so far?



Gregg



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