Workshop at JBay

Our workshop at Jamaica Bay (Wednesday after a rain-out on Tuesday) provided all the usual suspects but every one got some nice shots and (hopefully) learned a few things.

Steve, one of the participants, had never been to JBay before and was pretty psyched. He wrote to me on Thursday:

I woke up at 4:30am and found myself trying to decide whether or not to double down at Jamaica Bay this am or go to work... I chose Jamaica Bay :) - it was a completely different day - this am, despite the cloudy skies and light rain, there were tens of thousands of shorebirds in the East Pond - all over the East Pond - thanks in small part to two Peregrines who were stirring things up by trying to pick off whoever they could... There were literally thousands of Dowitchers, there were reports of Marbled and Hudsonian Godwits, avocet and stilts, I photographed a White Pelican who was hanging out with the Mute Swans (apparently there have been 2 hanging out in East pond for 2 weeks) -- I used yesterday's training well and spent more than an hour in total lying down and today the waiting paid dividends :) 

Just goes to show you--you can never tell. Like Woody Allen said, "90% of success is just showing up."