As part of our participation in the Northern Nassau CBC, we unsuccessfully searched Long Island Sound Saturday morning in Bayville for a Barrow's Goldeneye that has appeared in this location for a number of years. Goldeneye numbers were low, totaling approx. sixty birds from Stehli Beach Town Park east to Center Island Town Park. Local birders told us that the Barrow's had not been seen yet this year.
On Friday we did a little scouting in the Cedar Beach /Oak Beach area for the Captree CBC, scheduled for Sunday. Our best bird was a Baltimore Oriole discovered east of the Engineer's Road at Oak Beach. With the canceling of the count the oriole went from a count period bird to..... nothing (perhaps the fate of the Ash-throated Flycatcher in Queen's as well). As we prepare to shovel out our sixteen inches of snow we reflect on the birds we would have been seeing today if the weather patterns had been kinder and hope for better weather when the count is rescheduled. Ken Feustel -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
