I spent a few hours at the end of the incoming through the beginning of the outgoing tide cycles at Plum Beach with Bobbi Manian today. Highlights included:
Black Scoter Royal Tern(2) Piping Plover(2) "Eastern" Willet (getting late) Common and Least Terns were busy feeding young and the catch of the day goes to the Double-crested Cormorant who caught an eel as big as itself and managed to get it down before the cavalry of gulls arrived! Photos are in the Ebird checklist below. http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S31024419 We also found a dead parakeet or parrot washed up on shore. It was roughly starling sized. I've posted a photo of it at the link below if anyone cares to identify it. https://www.flickr.com/photos/103866258@N08/28858523685/in/dateposted-public/ Good birding, Sean Sime Brooklyn, NY -- 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/ --
