Hi All, Dick Belanger and I birded the Southampton side of Dune Road east to Shinnecock Inlet. The Hampton Bays side of the Inlet continues to be for all intents and birding purposes,off limits due to the ongoing dredge work there. We had a Crossbill flock,[ 15 Whitewinged], along the road a quarter mile from the Inlet. At the parking area shoreline we found 7 Dunlin with a few Sanderling. On the long sandbar within the bay there was a group of close to 200 Sanderling and 38 Common Eider. Across the inlet on the west jetty there were 2 feeding Purple Sandpiper and 2 Great Cormorant on the tower directly above them. Good numbers of gulls are gathering at the torrent of water and sand exiting the dredge pipe at the shore further west. There were 25 Bonaparte Gulls in the breakers there. Small numbers of Horned Grebes were evident on both bay and ocean. Good Holiday Birding and all the best in the New Year, Carl Starace
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