Twenty or so very social birders met in the Orchard Beach Parking lot this morning to bird Hunter Island and Orchard Beach. It was a comfortable morning and we walked the loop on Hunter Island to scope the surrounding waters. It was a relaxed walk and we had a lot of fun.
Purple Sandpiper Hooded Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Red-throated Loon Common Loon Great Cormorant Bufflehead Horned Grebe Brant American Black Duck Great Blue Heron Downy Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Black-capped Chickadee White-breasted Nuthatch Dark-eyed Junco Northern Cardinal Blue Jay White-throated Sparrow Golden-crowned Kinglet Long-tailed Duck Greater Scaup American Crow Ring-billed Gull Hering Gull Great Black-backed Gull Tufted Titmouse Canada Goose Red-tailed Hawk Harbor Seals were out on the rocks. We were not able to locate the Snowy Owl that was spotted yesterday. Jack Rothman cityislandbirds.com -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
