Here is a link to Peter Priolo's BARNACLE GOOSE photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/73827493@N07/
It appears as if the goose flock was much closer to Montauk Highway when Peter viewed them around 3:00PM. When I arrived the flock was toward the north end of the Lake. Hopefully the bird can be relocated and allow for further study(leg bands, etc.). Peter will be checking the lake tomorrow and will relay updates accordingly. Please do the same if you happen to see the goose. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Derek Rogers <drogers0...@gmail.com> Date: Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 5:11 PM Subject: Potential Barnacle Goose - Eastport Lake, Suffolk To: NY Bird List <nysbirds-l@cornell.edu> At 3:30 PM, I received a pix message from friend Peter Priolo. It was a decent digiscope photograph of what appeared to be a BARNACLE GOOSE. He viewed the goose on Eastport Lake in Eastport, NY. It was, as always, associating with CAGO's, about 150 of them. Coordinates below. I arrived on the scene at 4:10 PM. The flock was toward the far north end of the lake and I decided to post up along Montauk Highway to take advantage of the full lake view. As soon as I opened my tripod the flock lifted and flew toward the far NW. It was disheartening. I searched the northern sod and farm fields until dark and turned up nothing. Peter was able to take a few non-digiscope photos of which I have not yet seen. As stated, the bird was in water and unfortunately was not revealing its legs and feet. He is going to send me a link to share with List, so stay tuned and be on the lookout for this bird. Name: Barnacle Goose Coordinates: 40.82857° -72.72739° Elevation: 0 ft Link: View in Google Maps<http://maps.google.com/maps?q=loc:40.828569,-72.727389> Derek Rogers Sayville -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
