It's possible. It's a hard area to access, mostly viewed from across the back of the harbor.
Jennifer Wilson Pines On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 10:19 AM Francisco Rodríguez < franciscojrodrig...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I think this list includes Long Island, if not please disregard. > > What did I see? > > I was driving this morning on 25A by the Roslyn bridge, which is a tall > bridge over land and the beginning of the marshes of that bay and this bird > was going up very vertically from the marshes, to get a little higher than > I was on the side of the bridge. Perspective could be deceiving and I had > only few seconds to see it but it was small-ish, blue-ish (dark), with > pretty decent pace flapping going upwards and it totally looked like a > Little Blue Heron. Only that it is pretty late for them to stay around, > right? > > I have never seen a Great Blue Heron flap fast like that. That doesn't > mean that they can't. I just haven't seen it. I am sure that there are > plenty of Great Blue Herons in that area currently. But it "looked" more > dark blue and smaller. > > So, if anybody birds in that area, I would like to hear what it could have > been... > > Thanks, > > Regards > Fran > -- > *NYSbirds-L List Info:* > Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm> > Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm> > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > *Archives:* > The Mail Archive > <http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> > Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L> > ABA <http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01> > *Please submit your observations to **eBird* > <http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>*!* > -- > -- Jennifer Wilson-Pines -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") NYSbirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/nysbirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) birding_DOT_aba_DOT_org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
