This afternoon in the rain, there was a juvenile Glaucous Gull on the water just offshore a couple of hundred yards east of the Fisherman's Parking Lot at Fort Tilden. Various wet fields around southern Brooklyn (especially the Marine Park Golf Course, and the Marine Park Ballfields) hosted over a combined 1,000 Ring-billed Gulls this afternoon.
Yesterday, the Blue-gray Gnatcatcher continued at Coney Island Creek Park in Brooklyn, and several hundred Bonaparte's Gulls were offshore there, including several dozen foraging around the surf. On Sunday, Heydi Lopes and I covered the Montauk area (mostly east of Lake Montauk) for the Inaugural Suffolk County Rarity Roundup and found a few interesting highlights, though no blistering rarities (had nearly blistering sun though!): 1 Dickcissel at a feeder in the front yard of a house along Ditch Plains Road with over 40 House Sparrows coming to it. 1 Common Yellowthroat at Camp Hero State Park, right at the gate to the Radar Tower. 47 Razorbills between Montauk Point and the Camp Hero Overlook. 1 adult "Kumlien's" Iceland Gull flying around between the north end of Star Island the Montuak Lake inlet 1 Common Tern at Fort Pond Bay 1 Forster's Tern at Fort Pond Bay 1 flyby adult Lesser Black-backed Gull at Fort Pond Bay 2-3 Red-necked Grebes at For Pond Bay 1 female Common Merganser at Lazy Point in Napeague The pink-billed Greater White-fronted Goose also continued in the south field at Deep Hollow Ranch. Good Birding -Doug Gochfeld. Brooklyn, NY. -- 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/[email protected]/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/ --
