Shorebirds are building up or already present with so far Avocet last week and today's Ruff. But post Sandy the East Pond saw some landscape changes especially at the south end. See Andrew Baksh's blog post to what got altered.Be careful there but shorebird galore is best locally at JBWR for the next 6 weeks..
http://birdingdude.blogspot.com/2013/07/jamaica-bay-shorebird-report-7-11-13.html