Raptor migration had slowed to a trickle by early afternoon at the Fire Island hawk watch (eastern end of Robert Moses State Park, Suffolk Co.), but thankfully other avian travelers took up the slack for the dozen observers present. The most notable were a pair of AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS. The two pelicans were first sighted soaring beyond the the Fire Island lighthouse, heading west toward the watch. Unfortunately they reversed course while still quite distant and disappeared to the east. Thankfully they reappeared less than an hour later, spotted flying west again over the Great South Bay. Before the birds were finally lost from sight beyond the Robert Moses Causeway bridge, they provided nice scope views as they slowly soared past. Other notable birds moving down the barrier beach were a juvenile RED-HEADED WOODPECKER and a juvenile BLUE GROSBEAK.
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