These are just a few additions to yesterday's posts from various observers of Jamaica Bay and Jones Beach birds.
Midmorning, the drake Barrow's Goldeneye was present in the northwest bay - allowing only distant scope views. He was with a small flock of male and female Common Goldeneye. An additional 6 female were on the West Pond. A stop at the visitors center at 6:15 pm yielded at least 5 American Woodcock "peenting" and whirring in the south garden. Among the few birds at Jones Beach there was a flock of 16 Snow Buntings on the median in front of the Nature Center and a pair of Tree Swallows flying around the dunes east of the West End 2 parking lot. American Oystercatchers were in relative abundance in the air and on the beaches around Field 10 fishing piers and, as previously reported, Common Redpolls could be found in the pine trees at the east end of the parking lot. There were numerous seals bobbing in the bay as well as a Harp Seal hauled out on the far beach opposite the Jones Beach Coast Guard Station. At Point Lookout the 6 Harlequin Ducks continued, as did the juvenile Iceland Gull hanging nearby in the Inlet. A seventh Harlequin Duck, a female, fed alone by the western-most of the beach jetties. The previously large Common Eider rafts were reduced to a single female bird. There were single Common and Red-throated Loons near the west side of the inlet. Near the western jetty a pair of Harbor Seals looked back at their human observers. Rich Fried New York City -- 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/ --
