A few shots from yesterday's Jamaica Bay (NY) Shorebird Festival. The event featured a few birding walks, this one around the National Wildlife Refuge's marshy and extensive South Pond. Unfortunately, most photos were taken from rather far away. I'm including a fuzzy shot of a Red-necked Phalarope, which was over 300 yards away, because who knows when I'll see one again. Very cool birds - a pelagic shorebird. Also shown: a Blue-winged Teal couple, Pectoral Sandpiper, and Broad-winged Hawk.
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