Well, it looks like I quipped too soon.... Patricia just called from a quick lunch-break visit to Gilgo, reporting that Derek's bright male Blue Grosbeak was now back on task along the fenceline near the bathrooms, but that the Gullible Tern was nowhere in sight.
Within a minute, she called back to report a/the Gull-billed Tern hunting over the dunes, across from the parking lot. Shai Mitra Bay Shore ________________________________ From: bounce-51332123-11143...@list.cornell.edu [bounce-51332123-11143...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Shaibal Mitra [shaibal.mi...@csi.cuny.edu] Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 1:17 PM To: NYSBIRDS (NYSBIRDS-L@cornell.edu) Subject: [nysbirds-l] Gull-billed Tern at Gilgo Beach, Suffolk Joan Quinlan reports the year's first Gull-billed Tern at Gilgo Beach, Suffolk County, LI, but no Blue Grosbeak. The latter was present at Gilgo at 7:50 this morning but flew across the road toward the beach almost immediately after I spied it (depriving Patricia and Ken and Sue Feustel, and later Joan of chances to see it). Leaving for work, Patricia pulled off another example of what I've come to recognize as her signature birding move, promptly finding her own Blue Grosbeak along the Ocean Parkway, about halfway back to Cedar Beach! Shai Mitra Bay Shore ________________________________ Change is in the Air - Smoking in Designated Areas Only in effect.<http://www.csi.cuny.edu/tobaccofree> Tobacco-Free Campus as of July 1, 2012. -- NYSbirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L> BirdingOnThe.Net<http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- ________________________________ Change is in the Air - Smoking in Designated Areas Only in effect.<http://www.csi.cuny.edu/tobaccofree> Tobacco-Free Campus as of July 1, 2012. -- 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/ --
