Not a for a lacking of trying. The parking lots of Floyd Bennett Field, Riis
Park and Fort Tilden did not yield any Lesser-Black-backed Gulls today.
I gave each location a good shakeout early this morning and late this evening
hoping this time around I could throw down with the folks further east but alas
got skunked again. Maybe the weather was not bad enough but it seems as in the
past, the beaches/parking lots out east are pulling in more Lesser-Black-backed
Gulls (LBBGs) than those in Queens and Brooklyn.
John Heidecker also reported having at least 3 LBBGs at Smith Point County Park
today, further increasing the numbers reported from the Island of Long.
Cheers,
--------
"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of
others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." ~ Frederick
Douglass
風 Swift as the wind
林 Quiet as the forest
火 Conquer like the fire
山 Steady as the mountain
Sun Tzu The Art of War
> (__/)
> (= '.'=)
> (") _ (")
> Sent from somewhere in the field using my mobile device!
Andrew Baksh
www.birdingdude.blogspot.com
> On Sep 30, 2016, at 3:15 PM, Shaibal Mitra <shaibal.mi...@csi.cuny.edu> wrote:
>
> I also spent some time yesterday and today checking the Long Island barrier
> beaches for Lesser Black-backed Gulls.
>
> Of 15 individuals I managed to study and photograph, the age distribution was
> 3 juveniles, 5 second calendar-year, 5 third calendar-year, and 2 older
> immatures that were difficult to assign (either third or fourth
> calendar-year); I haven't seen any full adults personally since 5 September.
>
> The juveniles are very beautiful, and the next couple of weeks offer our best
> opportunity to see them. Very few remain this far north during the winter,
> and when they return in numbers to over-summer here, their SY plumages are,
> to put it charitably, less attractive. The various immature plumages I've
> been seeing lately are illustrated here:
>
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/96951581@N02/29944469171/in/photostream/
>
> A new cohort of juvenile Herring Gulls has also come in; these look quite
> different from our local juvs, with fresh and very contrasty plumage and
> all-black bills.
>
> Shai Mitra
> Bay Shore
> ________________________________________
> From: bounce-120844860-3714...@list.cornell.edu
> [bounce-120844860-3714...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of David Klauber
> [davehawk...@msn.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 30, 2016 2:07 PM
> To: NY Birds
> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Lesser Black-backed Gulls barrier beaches Long Island
> Nassau & Sufflok counties
>
> This morning Bobby Rosetti and I checked various parking lots from Jones
> Beach West End to Robert Moses. We saw at least 25-30 different Lesser
> Black-backed Gulls in all plumages from juvenile through adult. Specifically
> they were in the west End 2 lot, Robt Moses field 2 and 5, Captree upper lot,
> and Tobay. In addition Bobby saw between 8-10 at Point Lookout. A nice study
> in Lesser BB Gull plumages
> --
>
> 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/
>
> --
>
--
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/
--
