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Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 9:35 AM
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Subject: [nysbirds-l] Robert Moses State Park Sea Watch (Suffolk Co.)
Encouraged by Derek Roger's reports of seabird activity at Smith
Encouraged by Derek Roger's reports of seabird activity at Smith's
Point, we headed over to the beach to do a sea watch somewhere on the
Jones barrier island. We were surprised to find RMSP open (Fields 2 &
5), and decided to conduct a sea watch from Field 2. We spent an hour
looking, with
Corey Finger and I are just leaving Robert Moses State Park now. It was a truly
outstanding seabird flight. Birding with Pat Lindsay, Shai Mitra, Bob Kurtz,
Tom Burke and Gail Benson, we added the following to Ken's totals: 360 Sooty
Shearwaters, 17 Cory's Shearwaters, 1 Great Shearwater, 1 Man
There is a good movement of seabirds going on this morning at RMSP Field 2. In
forty-five minutes of observation, starting at 7:00AM, I observed 225 Sooty
Shearwaters, 5 Great Shearwaters, 4 Wilson's Storm Petrels and small numbers of
Common Loons and Northern Gannets.
Ken Feustel
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NYSbird
A one hour sea watch from 8:00AM to 9:00AM this morning from RMSP Field 5
produced the following:
Parasitic Jaeger -1
Royal Tern - 1
Red-throated Loon - 405
Common Loon - 4
Razorbill - 66
Bonaparte's Gull - 290
Laughing Gull - 1
Long-tailed Duck - 6
Black Scoter - 62
Surf Scoter - 6
Scoter sp. -
A sea watch was undertaken from Robert Moses State Park Field 5 this morning.
The feeding flocks of Gannets, large gulls, and Black-legged Kittiwakes moved
further offshore, making identification of distant birds difficult. Good
numbers of scoters and Common Eiders were present, as well as two l
A strong east wind provided for some excellent sea birding this
morning at RMSP Field 2. Good numbers of the large gulls, Gannets, and
Laughing Gulls were feeding fairly close inshore. I was pleasantly
surprised to see five Cory's Shearwaters feeding with the gulls and
Gannets. In reviewing
