I decided to check some of my favorite Roslyn Hotspots today. Gerry Park had six *Gadwalls, *eighty *Mallards*, including an albino female, twenty-six *Canada Geese*, and the resident pair of *Mute Swans.* Two *American Coots were also present.* On the ice, there sat 100 *Ring-billed Gulls, *accompanied by 18 *Herring Gulls* and a lone *Greater Black-backed Gull. *After recording these, I headed to my next favorite spot, Tappen Beach.
There at Tappen, the gulls were quite prolific. I could not count the numerous *Ring-billed *and *Herring Gulls, *but I succeeded in recording two *Greater Black-backed Gulls*. Four *Mallards* swam in the turbulent water, and a lone *Gadwall *floated around. 24 *Canada Geese* were also present. The highlight of the day was certainly a lone, juvenile *Tundra Swan* that was hanging out around Tappen. That as a lifer, but the real accomplishment was identifying it through my constantly foggy binoculars (I was scared to bring the scope out in the howling wind and two feet of snow). Good Birding, Avery Scott -- *Yours, * * Avery* "The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion in the only guarantee of morality." --Arthur Shopenhauer -- 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/ --
