To follow up on Shai Mitra's post, a rather slow but steady seawatch from Robert Moses Field 2 this morning from 7:30 to 9:50 produced the following birds:
16 Black Scoter - all one flock 51 Common Loon 7 Sooty Shearwater 51 Northern Gannet 7 Laughing Gull 17 Herring Gull 1 Great Black-backed Gull 33 Least Tern 1 Black Tern (alternate plumage) 10 Roseate Tern ~180 Common Tern 1 Forster's Tern (ad) Joan Quinlan joined me about 8:40 and got to see the last two shearwaters. Almost everything was migrating/feeding west to east; for the last half hour or so there were some (returning?) east-to-west No. Gannets and Common Terns. No jaegers or shorebirds of any kind were seen. A few Barn Swallows were passing, mostly east to west, and an Osprey was attracted to the feeding flocks of Common Terns near shore at two points. The wind was moderate out of the southeast, eventually turning more east, with only a few slight showers and very good visibility. 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/ --
