Hello All, What a pleasure it is to have a birding day with temps in the forties with the lightest of winds. Last Sunday I had led an Audubon walk that included Montauk. The measured windchill happened to be 1 degree. The five of us exited the cars that day at Lazy Point to try for the Snowy Owl and nearly got blown over to the Walking Dunes. Today Dick Belanger and I spent some time by the Lighthouse. There were more Common Eider,[200+], than any of the Scoters around. We had a single Northern Gannet flyby and a Red Necked Grebe on the southside with 20 Horned Grebe. The wind was just strong enough to smooth the faces of the breakers that were peaking up in front of the lighthouse. Surfers were jazzed. Ditch Plains had many surfers but few waterbirds. We found the Barrows Goldeneye pair with close to 40 Common Goldeneye from the beach at South Lake Drive. Did'nt try for the Snowy. At Hook Pond in East Hampton we noticed the Common Mergansers had returned. There were 21 birds, eighteen of them males. Nice day out east. Good Late February Birding, Carl Starace
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