[nysbirds-l] Smith's Point Sooty Shearwaters & Gulls

[Michael McBrien]

This evening, I did a seawatch from Smith's Point.  Over the course of  
an hour (6:15-7:15), I tallied 77 Sooty Shearwaters, all heading  
east.  There was a fairly constant stream of these shearwaters  
throughout the hour, although the action did taper off as the fog  
rolled in around 7:00.  The assemblage of gulls in the parking lot  
held 6 Lesser Black-backed Gulls (3 1st Summers, 1 2nd Summer, 2 older  
individuals) as well as a 1st Summer Glaucous Gull.

 Good Birding,
   Michael McBrien
   East Patchogue

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[nysbirds-l] Westhampton Dunes Seawatch, Suffolk

[Derek Rogers]

Michael Scheibel and I did a quick, 25 minute seawatch this afternoon across 
from the parking area at Westhampton Dunes Overlook County Park.

In the 25 minutes of birding we had at least 30 Sooty Shearwaters and around 50 
Northern Gannets. It was rare that I'd make a pass with my scope and not see 
either species. At times, Sootys were pretty darn close to shore, close enough 
where you could make out bill structure.

2 Laughing Gull, many Least and Common Terns were the other birds in the mix. 
No jaegers but I can add one to Shai's listed numbers from Robert Moses as I 
had 1 chasing gulls during a sea watch on Sunday evening at RMSP Field 3.

Plenty of good shorebirds on the flats at the overlook. 

Best,

Derek Rogers
Sayville

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[nysbirds-l] Kentucky Mine Rd May 22 2012

[Bill Elrick]

Hi I was up at Doodletown today and then checked Mine rd on the way home
and the Kentucky was still singing in the same spot.
Bill

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[nysbirds-l] Mecox yesterday

[Hugh McGuinness]

Last night, 21 May, the flats at Mecox Bay (eastern Suffolk Co.) held more
than 1000 sandpipers, mostly Sanderlings. Highlights were

19 Red Knot
2 Lesser Black-backed Gull (2nd & 3rd yr)
1 Bonaparte's Gull

In addition, the CATTLE EGRET was still present along Mecox Rd at the Mecox
Dairy in Watermill on Saturday.

Hugh

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East Hampton, NY 11937

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[nysbirds-l] Recent LI Seawatches

[Shaibal Mitra]

Although landbird migration has been tough to find under the steady easterly 
winds of recent days, many kinds of seabirds have been conspicuous in coastal 
Long Island. A two-hour seawatch at Robert Moses SP this morning (with Ken 
Feustel 8:00-9:00) yielded lots of birds when rain and fog cleared enough to 
reveal the ocean:

36 Common Loon
35 Northern Gannet
81 Sooty Shearwater
1 Parasitic Jaeger (light morph adult)
1 Laughing Gull

There was also one immature Lesser Black-backed Gull in the RMSP parking field 
2, and a Caspian Tern flew over the Twin Causeway as I returned across Great 
South Bay.

The scene was somewhat similar yesterday morning, when, with Patricia Lindsay, 
Shane Blodgett, and Ken, we recorded a very good tally of six Parasitic 
Jaegers, all light morph adults or near-adults, and four Lesser Black-backed 
Gulls (all different from today's bird). Shane mentioned seeing seven more 
LBBGs at Jones Beach later in the day.

A day earlier, on Sunday, Mary Normandia recorded at least three jaegers there, 
and she, Patricia, and I enjoyed a Black Tern, nine Roseate Terns, and four 
LBBGs at nearby Democrat Pt (the latter mostly/entirely distinct from 
yesterday's and today's birds, and locally outnumbering Ring-billed Gull!).

Another Caspian Tern was at Pikes Beach on Saturday, when Patricia and I 
visited.

We've come to expect this late spring push of immature LBBGs, but I find this 
spring's tally of Parasitic Jaegers very unusual. In 16 years of fairly 
consistent coverage of the LI shore, I've averaged just 1.2 PAJAs per spring, 
and I'd never before seen more than three in one day or four in one spring.

Shai Mitra
Bay Shore



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[nysbirds-l] Mecox yesterday

[Hugh McGuinness]

Last night, 21 May, the flats at Mecox Bay (eastern Suffolk Co.) held more
than 1000 sandpipers, mostly Sanderlings. Highlights were

19 Red Knot
2 Lesser Black-backed Gull (2nd  3rd yr)
1 Bonaparte's Gull

In addition, the CATTLE EGRET was still present along Mecox Rd at the Mecox
Dairy in Watermill on Saturday.

Hugh

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The Ross School
18 Goodfriend Drive
East Hampton, NY 11937

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[nysbirds-l] Kentucky Mine Rd May 22 2012

[Bill Elrick]

Hi I was up at Doodletown today and then checked Mine rd on the way home
and the Kentucky was still singing in the same spot.
Bill

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[nysbirds-l] Westhampton Dunes Seawatch, Suffolk

[Derek Rogers]

Michael Scheibel and I did a quick, 25 minute seawatch this afternoon across 
from the parking area at Westhampton Dunes Overlook County Park.

In the 25 minutes of birding we had at least 30 Sooty Shearwaters and around 50 
Northern Gannets. It was rare that I'd make a pass with my scope and not see 
either species. At times, Sootys were pretty darn close to shore, close enough 
where you could make out bill structure.

2 Laughing Gull, many Least and Common Terns were the other birds in the mix. 
No jaegers but I can add one to Shai's listed numbers from Robert Moses as I 
had 1 chasing gulls during a sea watch on Sunday evening at RMSP Field 3.

Plenty of good shorebirds on the flats at the overlook. 

Best,

Derek Rogers
Sayville

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