This evening from 3:20 to dusk Samantha Holschbach and I searched without success for the Pink-footed Goose at Sunken Meadow State Park. We found a flock of 65 Canadas on the edge of a closed parking lot; that was it for goose activity. It seems we've missed this bird by one day. No Accipiters seen either.
Earlier we birded the south shore of Long Island from Point Lookout to Robert Moses State Park. No unusual species, but plenty of opportunities to study all three scoters, Common Eiders, Common & Red-throated Loons, Long-tailed Ducks, Red-breasted Mergansers, Northern Gannets, Ruddy Turnstones, Dunlin, American Oystercatchers, and Black-bellied Plovers. Dan Scheiman formerly East Meadow, NY currently Little Rock, AR -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
