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On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 12:09 AM, & [NYSBIRDS] digest < nysbird...@list.cornell.edu> wrote: > NYSBIRDS-L Digest for Sunday, August 10, 2014. > > 1. 7/10: Possible LITTLE GULL at jones beach CGS > 2. NYS Pelagic Waters: More Band-rumped Storm-Petrels > 3. 10 Aug: (Probable) Little Gull at the Jones Beach CGS (Nassau Co.) - > link to digiscoped photo and iVideos > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: 7/10: Possible LITTLE GULL at jones beach CGS > From: Karen Fung <easternblueb...@gmail.com> > Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 11:21:15 -0400 > X-Message-Number: 1 > > I initially identified this bird as a Bonaparte's, but Michael McBrien > thinks it's a strong candidate for a first year Little Gull, based on its > small bill and short primary projection. It was on the sand bar but just > took off and is circling over our heads. Scope pics were taken earlier. > > ---- > > Karen Fung > NYC > http://kayeff.smugmug.com > > Sent from my iPhone > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: NYS Pelagic Waters: More Band-rumped Storm-Petrels > From: Angus Wilson <oceanwander...@gmail.com> > Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 18:50:38 -0400 > X-Message-Number: 2 > > Yesterday John Shemilt, Derek Rogers and I were fishing well beyond the > continental shelf, above the outermost portion of the Hudson Canyon. Birds > were very few and far between but we did encounter 23 BAND-RUMPED > STORM-PETRELS in 80-81 degree water. This was much farther out than our > usual spots on the self break or upper portions of the canyons....154 > statute miles SE of Shinnecock Inlet to be exact. The water depth was > around 10,000 ft at our deepest point. > > The only other birds we saw in five hours of trolling were fifteen Wilson's > Storm-Petrels, one Great Shearwater, two Audubon's Shearwaters and a single > juvenile Least Sandpiper. Running inshore to the shelf edge we saw little > else besides a single Leach's Storm-Petrel, a single Audubon's Shearwater > and a handful of Wilson's Storm-petrels. > > We overnighted and then fished some additional spots along the shelf this > morning but again saw very few birds: a few more Wilson's Storm-petrels and > another Audubon's. The ride home this afternoon was birdless but for five > Wilson's and two Cory's Shearwaters in the last few miles before the inlet. > Marine mammals included pods of Risso's Dolphin, Offshore Bottlenose > Dolphin and Long-finned Pilot Whale. > > Angus Wilson > New York City > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: 10 Aug: (Probable) Little Gull at the Jones Beach CGS (Nassau > Co.) - link to digiscoped photo and iVideos > From: Karen Fung <easternblueb...@gmail.com> > Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 19:31:16 -0400 > X-Message-Number: 3 > > For those interested, the images are embedded in my eBird checklist, here: > > http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S19392036 > > All feedback is welcome, either via the list or privately. > > Thanks, > Karen > > > > --- > > END OF DIGEST > > -- 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/ --
