Hello All, Here are some of yesterdays highlights from our Eastern Long Island Audubon team members.A Dovekie,[ spotted by Bob Adamo], flew from the eastern part of Shinnecock Bay towards Ponquogue Bridge.It landed briefly in front of two duck blinds on the midbay island situated north of the inlet jetties.Dick Belanger had scope views of it on the water.It then flew deeper into the bay past the dredge and tugboat.Earlier the close to 400 Common Eider that have been seen regularly around Shinnecock were lolling in the surf just off the tip of the west jetty.The sizeable flock of Bonapartes and single Blackheaded Gull seen later by many were absent in the morning.Further west the 3 of us had several Razorbills between Ponquogue Beach Lot and Tiana Beach.There were numerous Red Throated Loons along the oceanfront at every stop.At Cupsogue Jay Kuhlman and Andy Murphy had 200 Common Eider by Moriches Inlet and 2 Rednecked Grebe.They spotted 60 Harbor Seals between those in the inlet and others hauled out on the inside sandbars.Additionally they found 2 Redhead Duck,8 Common Merganser and 14 Canvasbacks and an American Kestral on the mainland sections they checked.The report by Ken Feustal and group of 1200 Razorbills at Montauk is pretty impressive even for Montauk.I usually see those kinds of numbers listed from places like Provincetown,Mass.By the way this Friday an adult IVORY GULL ,[third adult in 2 years], was discovered at Race Point in Provincetown.Good January Birding, Carl Starace --
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