Jones' Beach - 7th Nov

Another nice day at Jones' Beach, though not a great deal of new birds to report. Best birds for me were the 2 Northern Pintail in the ponds east of the West End 2 car park. Also there were 57 Green-winged Teal, 107 American Black Duck and a handful of Northern Shoveler and Mallards.

Elsewhere the main passerines were the hundreds of Yellow-rumped Warblers feeding on the millions of mosquitoes brought out by the combination of plenty of standing water after rain, and unseasonably warm weather. A Swainson's Thrush was quite late.

Early morning at the sandbar was good, with over 200 Black-bellied (Grey) Plover, 14 Red Knot, hundreds of Dunlin, 2 Turnstone, 5 Sanderling and 4 Greater Yellowlegs.

This Merlin was very active, though completely unconcerned by my presence.

Swainson's Thrush