Corey Finger and had a good day birding eastern Long Island today. We started at Shinnecock Inlet where there was a female KING EIDER among 310 or so Common Eiders in the bay. An almost all white SNOWY OWL was along Dune Road. We then went to Further Lane in East Hampton where 3 GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE were in the Canada Goose flock. When we arrived at Hook Pond five minutes after leaving Further Lane, the 3 Greater White-fronted Geese were already there, as were 2 TUNDRA SWANS and 2 RED-NECKED GREBES. The fields at Sagaponack contained few geese, so we went to Sagaponack Pond, where an adult BLACK-HEADED GULL was on the ice in the cove north of the parking lot. This bird apparently wintered in the area. There was also a hybrid EURASIAN-AMERICAN GREEN-WINGED TEAL there. Several hundred geese poured into the pond while we were there -- all Canadas. Following Derek Rodgers' report, we chased the ROSS' GOOSE and found it in a field along Old North Road on Southold thanks to John Sepenoski. We also saw Derek's GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE in the field along Roanoke Ave. north of Joyce Drive in Riverhead. Finally, we went to Merritts Pond in Riverhead, where there were about 3000 Canada Geese, and the PINK-FOOTED GOOSE was on the ice just behind a fence viewed from Peninsula Path. Please be respectful of private property there.
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