As Christine Guarino kindly posted earlier for us when we were out in the field, Jodi Brodsky and I were lucky enough to refind the previously reported Pink-footed Goose this afternoon (11/7) at Sunken Meadow State Park.
We were leaving the park headed south on the Sunken Meadow Parkway (having found neither the Pinkfoot nor the Barnacle Goose), when, only about a hundred yards after crossing Sunken Meadow Creek, Jodi noticed a flock of about 30 geese headed north almost straight toward us. We immediately pulled over, jumped out of the car, and, as the flock of Canadas went right over us (they were quite low), had a nice look at the Pink-footed ensconced in it. This was at about 3:05 PM. The birds definitely landed somewhere in Sunken Meadow Creek west of the bridge. We tried to find the bird again by scoping from the bridge, but it was not visible among the 50 or so Canadas that could be seen in the creek there. There were definitely more geese in the creek than we could see; at one point, about 10 Canadas flew up from the the area of Phragmites "islands" in the creek that can be seen from this bridge to the northwest (they flew up from just in back of the Osprey platform visible from the bridge). Sorry for the novella; just wanted to give as much information as possible about location and times for future searchers. Near as we could tell, the flock was headed almost due north when we saw them; maybe that'll help someone figure out where the the bird's spending its day. A few additional highlights of our day on Long Is. included one American Golden Plover still with a huge flock of Dunlins, Black-bellied Plovers, and a few Red Knots on the beach just west of Field 6 at Jones Beach, and 2 drake Harlequin Ducks at Jones Inlet (Pt. Lookout). Good birding Tait Johansson Lewisboro _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/177141665/direct/01/ -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --