This morning, I did a sea watch from the Montauk Point restaurant from 7:30 to 8:30 and then for about 40 minutes from Camp Hero. Numbers of SCOTERS may have increased since Brent Bomkamp's report about a week ago: there were at least 2000, perhaps closer to 3,000, among which WHITE-WINGED SCOTER seemed to constitute a higher fraction (perhaps 30 to 40%) than in the last few years. Both RED-THROATED and COMMON LOONS were abundant. The best sighting was an immature ICELAND GULL spotted by Ken and Sue Feustel on the water, close by, at Camp Hero. Ken also saw several fly-by RaZORBILLS, which I didn't get on.
I stopped at many of the usual sites to the west. The only notable sightings were the 4 continuing TUNDRA SWANS on Hook Pond and a GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE on Short's Pond, north of Water Mill. Doug Futuyma Stony Brook, NY dfutu...@gmail.com -- 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/ --
