From: rada...@msn.com
To: nysbirds-l-requ...@cornell.edu
Subject: Barrow's Goldeneye
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 01:50:48 -0500
Due to NYSOA's Pelagic Trip (out of Freeport) being cancelled for Sunday,
many people headed out to Montauk, in the hope of at least getting their alcids
by
Today's trip with NYSOA and the New York State Young Birders Club was
unfortunately weathered out due to high winds and bad seas. With so many
people interested in the trip, we are attempting to re-schedule it for
Sunday, March 27.
This has been an amazing year for alcids in our area, with
Today Shane Blodgett, Heydi Lopes, and I birded the east end of Long Island,
between Montauk and Dune Road (near the Ponquogue Bridge).
The unquestionable highlight of the day was an adult Ross's Goose we found
mixed in with a flock of ~700 Canada Geese along Scuttle Hole Road (between
We arrived too late at Belmont Lake in Suffolk County to see many geese of
any type but a search of the cemeteries in the area turned up the four
Greater White-fronted Geese at Pinelawn Cemetery. They were with a flock of
maybe 30 Canadas grazing in the grass on the west side of Wellwood Avenue
2/13/11 - Montauk Pt. S.P. & vicinity, Suffolk Co., NY
3 Red-throated Loons
4 Common Loons
5 Horned Grebes
many Canada Geese
12+ Brants
20+ Mute Swans
100+ American Black Ducks
3 Greater Scaup
many Common Eiders
thousands of Black Scoters
thousands of White-winged Scoters
thousands of Surf
I too saw the light-morph Rough-legged Hawk @ EPCAL yesterday that was
previously reported by Douglas Futuyama and have posted some photos and a
video of the bird hunting. I visited EPCAL once again this morning and saw
2 Northern Harriers, a Red-Tailed Hawk and 2 Horned Larks along the runway.
This morning, Sunday, my wife and I observed a M-F pair of hooded
mergansers in the salt pond that is on the north edge of the causeway that
joins East Marion to Orient.
Bill and Eileen Singer
East Marion
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I visited the Epcal (formerly Grumman) property on Saturday, Feb. 12, in
midmorning. A third-year BALD EAGLE flew up from the ground near the
western runway (where the LeConte's Sparrow had been) and made its way
westward. A handsome ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK (pale morph) was soaring about. I
saw no
I visited the Epcal (formerly Grumman) property on Saturday, Feb. 12, in
midmorning. A third-year BALD EAGLE flew up from the ground near the
western runway (where the LeConte's Sparrow had been) and made its way
westward. A handsome ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK (pale morph) was soaring about. I
saw no
This morning, Sunday, my wife and I observed a M-F pair of hooded
mergansers in the salt pond that is on the north edge of the causeway that
joins East Marion to Orient.
Bill and Eileen Singer
East Marion
--
NYSbirds-L List Info:
http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME
I too saw the light-morph Rough-legged Hawk @ EPCAL yesterday that was
previously reported by Douglas Futuyama and have posted some photos and a
video of the bird hunting. I visited EPCAL once again this morning and saw
2 Northern Harriers, a Red-Tailed Hawk and 2 Horned Larks along the runway.
2/13/11 - Montauk Pt. S.P. vicinity, Suffolk Co., NY
3 Red-throated Loons
4 Common Loons
5 Horned Grebes
many Canada Geese
12+ Brants
20+ Mute Swans
100+ American Black Ducks
3 Greater Scaup
many Common Eiders
thousands of Black Scoters
thousands of White-winged Scoters
thousands of Surf Scoters
We arrived too late at Belmont Lake in Suffolk County to see many geese of
any type but a search of the cemeteries in the area turned up the four
Greater White-fronted Geese at Pinelawn Cemetery. They were with a flock of
maybe 30 Canadas grazing in the grass on the west side of Wellwood Avenue
Today Shane Blodgett, Heydi Lopes, and I birded the east end of Long Island,
between Montauk and Dune Road (near the Ponquogue Bridge).
The unquestionable highlight of the day was an adult Ross's Goose we found
mixed in with a flock of ~700 Canada Geese along Scuttle Hole Road (between
Today's trip with NYSOA and the New York State Young Birders Club was
unfortunately weathered out due to high winds and bad seas. With so many
people interested in the trip, we are attempting to re-schedule it for
Sunday, March 27.
This has been an amazing year for alcids in our area, with
From: rada...@msn.com
To: nysbirds-l-requ...@cornell.edu
Subject: Barrow's Goldeneye
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 01:50:48 -0500
Due to NYSOA's Pelagic Trip (out of Freeport) being cancelled for Sunday,
many people headed out to Montauk, in the hope of at least getting their alcids
by
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