I wrapped up my morning work duties as quickly as I could then raced down to join Pat at 09:05. By then she'd seen at least two of the pelicans return from the east, mill around, then work eastward out of sight again. We gave it 25 minutes of careful effort without any further sign of the pelicans, and then Pat suggested we try further east, at Field 5.
Such a maneuver, in my mind, is a forlorn hope--a futile displacement behavior to distract oneself from the pain of failure. But I agreed. Her suggestion that we try Fields 3 and 4 along the way was intolerable, though, so we pulled in at Field 5 and set up. Almost immediately, I saw two long-winged seabirds milling over the ocean, off to the east! We savored the Brown Pelicans for a minute or two before they worked their way out of sight to the east. Shai Mitra Bay Shore ________________________________________ From: bounce-124680383-3714...@list.cornell.edu [bounce-124680383-3714...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Shaibal Mitra [shaibal.mi...@csi.cuny.edu] Sent: Friday, June 5, 2020 8:32 AM To: NYSBIRDS (NYSBIRDS-L@cornell.edu) Subject: [nysbirds-l] Brown Pelicans Robert Moses SP, Suffolk Patricia Lindsay reports a trio of Brown Pelicans flying west to east on the oceanfront at Robert Moses SP, Suffolk County, Long Island. Shai Mitra Bay Shore -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
