Hi all, This morning, I checked the West End of Jones Beach, focusing on the Coast Guard Station and Median. There was a good variety of songbirds, including my first Golden-crowned Kinglets and Dark-eyed Junco of the fall. The highlight though, was a single *Summer Tanager *that briefly appeared in the median before moving on. I saw it along the median near the turnoff for the Coast Guard Station. It seemed to head westward, but I was unable to relocate it. In addition to the tanager, there was a good smattering of warblers, including a big push of Yellow-rumped Warblers and a few Palm, Pine, Black-throated Green, Blackpoll, and Prairie Warblers.
A link to my complete eBird checklist, with photos of the Summer Tanager, is here: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S31767434 Good birding, Shawn Billerman Massapequa -- 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/ --
