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From: mjm@oliven.olivetti.com (Michael Mammoser)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Any migration going on?
Message-ID: <27909@oliveb.olivetti.com>
Date: 27 Aug 88 00:13:48 GMT
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In article <658@picuxa.UUCP>, gpasq@picuxa.UUCP (Greg Pasquariello X1190) writes:
> Anyone getting any good migrants yet?  It's still pretty slow here in 
> New Jersey but it is starting to pick up.  Jamaica Bay has it's usual late
> summer migrants coming in (Hud. Godwits, Stilt Sandpipers, lots of semipalm).
> Just the other day (Aug 22) I got my annual nighthawks.  They usually show up
> around the 20th.  Upland Sandpipers are on the sod farms, and any day now, I
> expect to get hundreds of golden plovers, and hopefully a buff-breasted sand-
> piper.

	Shorebird migration has been going on for a couple of weeks out here
on the west coast in the Bay Area. We've been getting the rare, but usual, 
Baird's, Pectoral, Semipalmated, Stilt, and Solitary Sandpipers; as well as a 
fair number of Lesser Golden Plovers. A Ruff was reported yesterday along the
coast south of San Francisco. Migrant landbirds hitting Pt. Reyes include Red-
Eyed Vireo; Townsend's, Hermit, Black-Throated Gray, Wilson's, Yellow, Canada,
Black-Throated Green, and Hooded Warblers.

Mike