An otherwise slow day at the Fire Island hawk watch (only 20 raptors from 7:30-2:00) was brightened when a BLACK VULTURE soared westward in the early afternoon. I refound the vulture later (~3:15) in the parking lot of Oak Beach town park. Farther west down Oak Beach Rd., I scoped the inlet flats from the small fisherman's lot. Among the sizeable congregation of gulls, terns and shorebirds was a continuing MARBLED GODWIT (first seen 9/17) and a Royal Tern. Between the hawk watch and Oak Beach I spent 30 minutes checking the marsh north of Captree Island, where there were at least 70 Great Egrets.
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