Nickerson Beach 4 June, late afternoon Alerted by Ed Becker, I went to Nickerson Beach, joined in the parking lot by Bob Anderson. We found Joe Viglietta, on the beach in front of the tern colony, looking at a pair of ROSEATE TERNS. One bird was a banded sub-adult and the other an adult. The adult had long streamers and a very faint pink blush that showed in the enlarged photos, but not noticed when we scoped the bird.
There was a lot of movement with terns coming and going onto the beach along the wrack line. A look through them before we left found an adult GULL-BILLED TERN resting. Sy Schiff -- 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/ --
