Today on the Viking Fleet/CRESLI whale watch in an between waters south of Block Island to waters just south of Montauk we encountered 30-40 Wilson's Storm Petrels; 3 Greater Shearwaters; 20 bottlenose dolphins (coastal migratory stock); and two loggerhead turtles
Sent from my iPhone On Jul 22, 2012, at 1:36 PM, Angus Wilson <oceanwander...@gmail.com> wrote: > Numbers of WILSON'S STORM-PETRELS continue in the body of water separating > the North and South Forks of Long Island (Suffolk Co.) as first reported by > Bruce Horwith from last weekend. This morning I counted 74 from Culloden > Point in Montauk. A telescope is required and the birds were feeding over a > relatively broad area to the east of Gardiner's Island and south of Great > Gull Island. Small numbers of storm-petrels have frequented this same area is > past summers but it's unclear what attracts them. By contrast, no tubenoses > of any kind were seen in a brief scan east or south of Montauk Point. A > bedraggled flock of summering seaduck continue in Shagwong Bay (off Oyster > Pond) with 9 SURF SCOTER, 2 WHITE-WINGED SCOTER and 2 COMMON EIDER. > > -- > Angus Wilson > New York City & The Springs, NY, USA > http://birdingtotheend.blogspot.com/ > -- > NYSbirds-L List Info: > Welcome and Basics > Rules and Information > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > Archives: > The Mail Archive > Surfbirds > BirdingOnThe.Net > Please submit your observations to eBird! > -- -- 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/ --
