Birded yesterday along Riis Park/Fort Tilden coast (Queens county) with Seth Ausabel, Corey Finger and Bob Dieterich.
First bird of the day was the first winter KING EIDER that had initially been found on Saturdays' Brooklyn CBC. The bird was just off a jetty toward the eastern of Fort Tilden. Here is a map: http://tinyurl.com/23sl8g9 The bird was 1 or 2 jetties west of this on the CBC. A caveat though, a search for the bird yesterday afternoon was not successful. Some protracted scoping from Riis Park pulled out a couple of distant RAZORBILLS (thanks to Seth). Other highlights for day were 1500+ Black Scoters, 8-10 White-winged Scoters, 25-20 Red-throated Loon, 11 Purple Sandpipers on Breezy Point jetty and 15-20 Common Eider. A lot of seaducks went unidentified as they very far out on the ocean. Just before returning home I made a quick stop at the Veteran's Memorial Fishing Pier (end of 69th Street in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn) and found the recurring adult BLACK-HEADED GULL. There seems to be a partial m.o. for this bird now. The 3x it has been seen this fall (all in the last 10 days), it was roosting on the pier with RBGU in 20-30 mph NW winds. See you afield, Shane Blodgett Brooklyn NY -- 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 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
