Highlights from an early morning venture at the two sites.
Tilden off the Fisherman's parking lot:
Green-winged Teal getting tossed around in the surf (had a perplexed look, like
how the heck did I end up here).
1 Parasitic Jaeger - picked up just below the horizon, heading east. Cloud
cover made it easy to track this bad boy for some time.
Small numbers of Northern Gannets, Black Scoters. A few scattered Long-tailed
Ducks, Red-throated Loons and Double Crested Cormorants.
Breezy Point:
Royal Terns and Bonaparte's Gulls off the Ocean - all heading west. Forster's
Terns in close on the bayside. 9 Common Eiders heading west just off the tip
along with a few Purple Sandpipers.
1 Ipswich form of Savannah Sparrow in the wheel ruts on the beach. 1 lingering
NORTHERN PARULA near the parking lot. 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglets.
A good number of Yellow-rumped Warblers continue (>150). A few Hermit
Thrushes, Gray Catbird, Brown Thrasher and 1 Eastern Towhee. All notable for
CBC scouting.
Good numbers of White-throated Sparrows and Dark-eyed Juncos near the parking
lot but nothing else in that mix.
Cheers,
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"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of
others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." ~ Frederick
Douglass
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林 Quiet as the forest
火 Conquer like the fire
山 Steady as the mountain
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Andrew Baksh
www.birdingdude.blogspot.com
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