I have included a link to my Flickr site which contain some digiscope photographs of the Pink-footed Goose in Holtsville.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/39025168@N07/sets/72157629424681587/ The coordinates for the soccer field are: 40.82390, -73.04073 Good luck if you go! Best, Derek Rogers Sayville ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Derek Rogers <drogers0...@gmail.com> Date: Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 5:45 PM Subject: Pink-footed Goose - Holtsville, Suffolk To: NY Bird List <nysbirds-l@cornell.edu> At 4:45 PM I observed a Pink-footed Goose foraging in a large soccer field in Holtsville. The field is located along the North service road of the Long Island Expressway, just west of Blue Point Road. You can't miss it. The goose was still present at 5:30 PM when I left the site. It was among approximately 500 Canada Geese. I managed some decent digiscope photos and got some video footage as well. I will post the photos in my Flickr page later this evening and will share. Hopefully this field is part of the birds daily foraging pattern. What drew my attention was not only the number of geese present in the field but also the groups I observed landing in as a drove past the field heading west on the expressway. This prompted my interest in turning around for a closer look. I'm glad I did! -Derek Rogers Sayville -- 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/ --
