While Holly Wilson and I were searching unsuccessfully for the Black-headed Gull near Owl's Head Park, Brooklyn, Holly detected a first winter Glaucous Gull on the rooftop of the wastewater treatment plant. The bird remained for about 15 minutes around 9:30 am, then disappeared, and we found neither it nor the Black-headed Gull when we returned around 4:00 pm.
Today, 5 Feb, Shai Mitra and I observed a huge flock of Brant in Great South Bay, as viewed from the eastern end of the fishing piers at Captree SP, Suffolk County, LI. The two of us independently estimated the flock at about 8,500--by far the most we can recall seeing in Suffolk County. Patricia Lindsay Bay Shore -- 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/ --
