This morning a single *CASPIAN TERN* and three adult *LESSER BLACK-BACKED
GULLS* were on the sand flats at Mecox Inlet (Watermill, Suffolk Co) along
with a 1000+ Sanderling and usual mix of winter shorebirds. 2 *LESSER
YELLOWLEGS* were on muddy extension of Georgica Pond and another was on a
rain pool in Springs. The adult *LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL* ('Larry')
continues at Lazy Point in Napeague and is now fully white headed. Generally
there were few signs of landbird migration, however, *BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHERS
* (local FoS's) at Long Pond in Sag Harbor and Bendigo Road in Amagansett
were of note. Two *SNOWY EGRETS* were on Fresh Pond in Amagansett - egrets
are still scarce out here and female *AMERICAN KESTREL* continues off Town
Lane.As noted by Shai, there was a decent waterfowl flight along the ocean throughout the morning. Unfortunately things were winding down when I stopped to do an hour seawatch from Amagansett (12:58-1:58 pm) but I still tallied the following (2,343 individuals of 12 species) heading east: Northern Gannet - 118 Common Loon - 107 Red-throated Loon - 74 loon sp. - 14 dark-winged scoter sp. - 890 Black Scoter - 240 Surf Scoter - 260 White-winged Scoter - 2 Red-breasted Merganser - 11 Green-winged Teal - 2 duck sp. - 150 Double-crested Cormorant - 463 Great Cormorant - 1 (in with the Dc Corms) Laughing Gull - 8 *RAZORBILL* - 3 (2 and then 1 half hour later) I was seeing skeins of cormorants all morning, most traveling over land rather than water. Out here most flocks cut across the peninsula making a bee-line for New England. -- Angus Wilson New York City & The Springs, NY, USA http://birdingtotheend.blogspot.com/ -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
