Sunday, August 31, 2008

Jamaica Bay Wildlife preserve and Digiscoping in low light



Red Knot non-breeding
Originally uploaded by kevinbolton56
Hello all

Third time at Jamaica Bay seemed to be a charm like the capture I have of this Red Knot and Wilson's Phalarope ,which was 1 of 8 of the them in various non-breeding plumage's , granted it is not the most colorful of species this time of year which the lighting conditions is a contributing factor also.

Now on the lighting conditions from a scale 1 to 10 as 1 being the worst, I give it a 2 to 4 because the sun did peek out occasionally raising my shutter speed a bit .

Other Birds sighted

Sora
Great Eget
Great Blue Heron
Least Sandpiper
Semi Sand
Western Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
White Rump Sandpiper
Black Bellied Plover
Short Billed Dowitcher
Baird's Sandpiper / not by me.
Semi Plover
Wilson's Phalarope
Foster's Tern
Laughing Gull
GB Gull
Hering Gull
Perigrine Falcon
Osprey
Belted Kingfisher
Northern Waterthrush

also other Warblers present
did not chase for ID


Good Birding
Kevin

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