During my first minute or so of birding in Brooklyn this morning I found a 2nd cycle/winter Glaucous Gull at the very end of Bay Parkway, where it hits Gravesend Bay next to Caeser's Bay Bazaar. It disappeared shortly afterwards, and I didn't find anything else nearly as noteworthy during the next few hours of birding the area. There are 4,000-5,000 Gulls between the eastern end of Brighton Beach and the northern section of Gravesend Bay right now, although many are not very close.
The Northern Shrike and at least 1 Red-necked Grebe continued at Floyd Bennett Field as well, with the Grebe floating amidst a Red-breasted Merganser flock in Jamaica Bay off of the NE corner of the base. Good (Blue)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/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
