I believe Shane Blodgett found one, also behind the Coast Guard Station at
Jones Beach, in 2006, and this one was photographed by at least Lloyd Spitalnik:
http://www.lloydspitalnikphotos.com/v/other_waterbirds/black_guillemot/
Cheers
-Doug Gochfeld. Brooklyn, NY.
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Today's Paulagics pelagic trip out of Freeport (Nassau County), NY was an
incredible success, and not just because of the amazingly good weather
(including seas so glassy that birds were at times identifiable by just their
reflection in the water).
Highlights were as follows:
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The most remarkable thing in a morning's birding around the Brooklyn coast this
morning was the count of 36 American Kestrels in the Floyd Bennett Field
grasslands, which is by far the highest I have ever seen on the ground in one
place on Long Island, echoing Doug Futuyma's recent large number
While I didn't knowingly cross paths with any of the Swallow-tailed Kites
bouncing around western Long Island this morning, I did see a few things worthy
of mention here.
At Coney Island Creek, a young GLAUCOUS GULL was the only rarity in a very
quiet (and therefore brief) morning trip that
Sean Sime, Joe DiCostanzo, and I looked for the Willow Ptarmigan on Point
Peninsula for a little over an hour this morning, starting a few minutes after
dawn, but we were not able to find it.
Yesterday evening it was in a tree at these coordinates: 43.961438,-76.273077
There is a large
In addition to Shai's pristine adult Lesser Black-backed Gull at Heckscher,
there were at least 8 other adult Lesser Black-backed Gulls grounded in
Brooklyn and Queens yesterday:
2-3 at Floyd Bennett Field
3 in the parking lot at Riis Park
2 on the ballfields at Big Egg Marsh (fide Shane
Keir Randall just called to say he just had a Black-necked Stilt fly north over
him at the Maryland Monument in Prospect Park.
Keep your eyes up!
-Doug Gochfeld. Brooklyn, NY.
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A Mississippi Kite flew over big John's pond at Jamaica bay Wildlife refuge
heading west about 5 minutes ago. Last reports from this on the west pond were
that it turned north and was maybe somewhere in the vicinity if Spring Creek
heading NNW.
Keep lookin' up!
-Doug Gochfeld. Brooklyn, NY.
For what it's worth, I'm fairly certain I saw the/a Eurasian Collared-Dove in
Manhattan today, though I was not actively birding and had no binoculars on me.
It flew one complete circuit around the artificial turf baseball/soccer field
bounded by 27th and 28th streets and just east of 10th
The Paulagics overnight pelagic trip out of Freeport, NY is now less than a
month away, and there are still a handful of spots on the boat.
The plan for the trip is to leave the dock at 8 PM on Monday, August 11, aboard
the 100' Starstream VIII (From the Captain Lou Fleet), and be at the
The East Pond star of today, although elusive for a while, was the HUDSONIAN
GODWIT, which was on the East side of the pond opposite the 3rd spit from a bit
after 12:00 (noon) to ~1:30 PM when a Harrier briefly forced all the shorebirds
into the air. It then disappeared for several hours while
This morning at "Low" Tide at Plum Beach there were at least 8 Black Terns
milling around just off the tip (the easternmost end of the beach). I put the
"Low" in quotation marks because even though it was supposed to be low there
were almost no flats visible, so these swells from Tropical Storm
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