Happy New Year everyone, A female King Eider was far offshore from Stehli Beach (the westernmost beach on the Bayville strip). I was standing just beyond the little pavillion about halfway down the parking lot and looking due north. It was associating with a long line of White-winged Scoter (and almost nothing else) a couple of hundred yards offshore. I thought I saw a report of a female from this area sometime in the last couple of weeks but can't find it now - and I assume this was the same bird the Northern Nassau CBC reported.
There was one flock of goldeneye there - no Barrow's. A second group was halfway between the big parking area for Ransom Beach in Bayville and the apparently private overlook on Merritt Lane to the east. A cursory look showed no funky goldeneyes, although apparently a female was there this morning per Angus Wilson on eBird. Also no luck around Sands Point, although Andrew Baksh had a drake there this morning as well. Brendan Fogarty -- 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/ --
