Birding for Beginners with Frank: Shorebirds - Part 2 of 3 with North Fork Audubon

Birding for Beginners with Frank: Shorebirds - Part 2 of 3

5/25/2014 · 11 am - Sunday
Hampton Bays

Leader: Frank Quevedo, SoFo Executive Director

Join Frank on this shorebird migration walk at Shinnecock. These beaches, tidal flats, and wetlands are excellent staging areas for migrating birds. They provide abundant food sources for the birds’ nourishment and thus ensure the energy reserves they need to continue and sustain their long-distance flights. In addition to seeing migrating shorebirds, you’ll also be on the lookout for sparrows, rails, grackles, and other specialties of the area. You can also check out the ocean for pelagic birds, which occasionally come in close at this time of year. Bring your binoculars, a scope, and a field guide to Birds of Eastern North America, if you have one. For adults and children ages 12 and up.

To make a reservation for this program, please call the museum at 631-537-9735.

We are meeting at Shinnecock Inlet in Hampton Bays at 11am on Sunday.



Directions: Head South on Route 24 (Flanders Road) towards Hampton Bays. Make a left turn onto County Rd 80 E/NY-27A. Proceed east and make right turn onto Ponquogue Ave. Take Ponquogue Avenue to the end and make left onto Shinnecock Road. From Shinnecock Road, make right turn onto Foster Avenue. Continue onto Ponquogue Bridge. At traffic light at end of bridge, Turn left onto Beach Rd/Dune Rd. Proceed to the end (Shinnecock Inlet). My cell phone number is 631-655-2743 if anyone needs to call me.