Hi all, At sunrise today Rich Fried and I were on the dock at Cedar Beach Marina with hopes to see the Gyrfalcon that was found on Wednesday and seen yesterday morning. After a couple of hours and with 3 other birders also looking for it we decided to go and check other locations.
When we arrived at Gilgo the fog had rolled in and it was so thick that we could barely discern the gates and perhaps half of the parking lot. You couldn't even tell that there was a dock and water beyond. So we turned around and drove back. Cedar Beach was also socked in fog by then so we continued to Captree, which was virtually void of birds. Next we stopped at the Coast Guard Station, where the sand bar was occupied by a large flock of Brant, regular gulls and a few shorebirds. At West End II we found a large flock of Snow Buntings (120+) that was moving between the swale and parking lot. After another stop at Cedar Beach Marina we made our last stop at Point Lookout, where we enjoyed watching one male Harlequin Duck, 4 Purple Sandpiper, a handful of Sanderling and cirka one hundred Dunlin on one of the breakwaters. Common and Red-throated Loons were on the water, small flocks of Black Scoters flew west to east, and further out a dozen or so Northern Gannets were feeding. good birding on an unusually warm December spring-like day, Anders Peltomaa Manhattan -- 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/ --
