Afternoon fishing trip behind Gardiner's Island provided bluefish, fluke
(dinner) and great views of 3 Cory's shearwater and a Wilson's
storm-petrel. The shearwater among dozens of common terns feeding on bait
that was sporadically being busted up by cocktail blues. I'm sure those
birds know what t
Yesterday around noon 3 of them about 3 miles SW of Montauk Lighthouse and
2 around 2PM a mile west of Gardiners Island.
Orhan Birol
Shelter Island
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Because recent sea-watching along the south shore of Long Island has not
been very productive, I was heartened to see a fairly distant Cory's
Shearwater from the Shinnecock Inlet overlook at about 7 p.m. this evening.
What may have been the same bird appeared about 8 minutes later,
considerably clo
Mark French and I were on the beach at Field #2 at 5:45AM. The show did not
begin until 7:34AM, when the first of 35 CORY'S SHEARWATERS passed - all
were heading east to west. A single MANX SHEARWATER passed - west to east,
a few minutes after the first Cory's. The Cory's were still moving when we