The Barnacle Goose was observed leaving with Canadas southward around 1pm and has not seemed to have returned to Millers Pond. A decently extensive search of surrounding fields was done by myself and Derek Rogers but failed to turn up the goose. A large number (possible 30+, I recorded 24 different banding codes) of the Canada Geese have yellow neck collars from a banding program in Greenland... so any flocks with those geese might have the Barnacle lurking with them.
Searching led me to Lake Ronkonkoma County Park Lily Pond (this is the park just north of Lake Ronkonkoma on Portion Road, there is a small turn off for parking) and there I turned up a "cooperative to the binoculars but not to the camera" Orange-crowned Warbler in the northwest section of the small loop trail. I believe one was reported there by the Four Harbors Audubon Society about a month ago. Photo of the orange-crowned and others here: https://flic.kr/p/phLRaQ -Dave -- 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/ --
