Hi, I think this list includes Long Island, if not please disregard.
What did I see? I was driving this morning on 25A by the Roslyn bridge, which is a tall bridge over land and the beginning of the marshes of that bay and this bird was going up very vertically from the marshes, to get a little higher than I was on the side of the bridge. Perspective could be deceiving and I had only few seconds to see it but it was small-ish, blue-ish (dark), with pretty decent pace flapping going upwards and it totally looked like a Little Blue Heron. Only that it is pretty late for them to stay around, right? I have never seen a Great Blue Heron flap fast like that. That doesn't mean that they can't. I just haven't seen it. I am sure that there are plenty of Great Blue Herons in that area currently. But it "looked" more dark blue and smaller. So, if anybody birds in that area, I would like to hear what it could have been... Thanks, Regards Fran -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") NYSbirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/nysbirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) birding_DOT_aba_DOT_org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
