The 90th Smithtown Count was held on Tuesday, December 27. Despite the rain and wind at the end of the day we tallied 107 species. The highlights are listed below:
1 Greater White-fronted Goose (Stony Brook Mill Pond) 25 Common Merganser (Sunken Meadow Creek) 1 Red-Necked Grebe (Old Field Point) 36 Northern Gannet 1 American Bittern (Sunken Meadow) 22 Great Egret (Sunken Meadow, Mt. Sinai Harbor) 1 Green Heron (Mt. Sinai Harbor) 1 Turkey Vulture 1 Bald Eagle (Sunken Meadow) 2 Merlin (Old Field, Mt. Misery) 3 Virginia Rail (Nissequogue River, Head of the Harbor) 1 Ruddy Turnstone (Porpoise Channel) 3 Purple Sandpiper (Port Jeff Harbor jetties) 1 Wilson's Snipe 14 Razorbill (Old Field Point) 12 Great Horned Owl 3 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Sunken Meadow, Blydenburgh County Park) 1 House Wren (David Weld Preserve) 3 Marsh Wren (Nissequogue River) 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Sunken Meadow) 3 Brown Thrasher 1 Nashville Warbler (Millers Pond out-flow) 1 Pine Warbler (Sunken Meadow) 1 Palm Warbler (Old Field Point) 1 Chipping Sparrow (Gyrodyne/Flowerfield) Rich Gostic Compiler -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
