At about 5:55 this morning I saw a single Short-eared Owl West of the Fire Island National Seashore visitor center next to Smith Point county park. I watched it for perhaps a minute before it dropped out of sight - I hung around until I thought it was getting too light, but never picked it up again. Other birds interesting to me there were a Fox Sparrow, 19 American Pipits, and a Merlin. There was a real Northern Gannet show in the Atlantic - I counted 1012 of them before I got tired of holding the binoculars up, but there were more.
Richard Kaskan Shoreham, NY -- kas...@ieee.org (512) 748-8660 -- 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/ --
