Forwarding for Jim Pawlicki. Beaver Island State Park is at the southern end of Grand Island in Erie County.
Andy Guthrie Hamlin, NY Begin forwarded message: > From: James Pawlicki <jmpawl...@gmail.com> > Date: November 20, 2013 at 5:28:42 PM EST > To: geneseebirds-l <geneseebird...@geneseo.edu> > Subject: [GeneseeBirds-L] *Elegant Tern* on Niagara River at Beaver Island > SP, Grand Island > > This is just a quick note to get the word out on the internet in case anyone > wants to make plans for tomorrow. > > Vicky Rothman called me up around 1 pm today saying that she had an > "orange-billed" tern slightly larger than Bonaparte's Gulls sitting in the > shallows of the Niagara River near the loop just offshore Beaver Island State > Park (Grand Island, Erie County). I was able to see and photograph the bird > with Vicki around 1:30 p.m. and after some observation it was clear to both > of us that the bird was not a Royal Tern and was one of the smaller > orange-billed terns -- apparently and perhaps most realistically a > juvenile/1st-cycle Elegant Tern. WNY Birds text alerts went out and a few > people started arriving in short order, although the bird was not seen again > till 3 pm when it made a quick fly-by over the sitting gulls in the shallows, > attempting, but not landing, and then continuing out of sight to the east > towards Strawberry and (newly-formed/rocky) Frog Islands. Several other > people arrived, but the bird was not seen again as far as I know. > > Places to check tomorrow apart from the above location would be to scope Frog > and Strawberry Islands from either Beaver Island State Park or the Sheridan > Drive Boat Launch in Tonawanda for sitting birds (distant, scope-needed), and > possibly other locations on the upper river such as Rich Marine (which is > still holding at least 6 Common Terns this evening per Tom Kerr) and other > areas around Beaver Island park such as the wetland restoration at the east > end near Ferry Rd., plus the sandy swimming beach (no birds there today) and > the marina. > > I will post some record shots of the bird later this evening. > > > Jim Pawlicki > _______________________________________________ > GeneseeBirds-L mailing list - geneseebird...@geneseo.edu > https://mail.geneseo.edu/mailman/listinfo/geneseebirds-l -- 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/ --
