A one-hour seawatch at Robert Moses SP (7:00-8:00) yielded a good flight of Common Loons, lots of milling Gannets, one White-winged Scoter, and one adult, light-morph Parasistic Jaeger heading east.
Although my search for Sooty Shearwater was not successful today, I was happy to get a call from Long Island transplant to Virginia, Andy Baldelli, who was of like mind down at Virginia Beach. Andy found at least two, and probably three, adult Arctic Terns there today, as well as two Sooty Shearwaters. No such luck on LI, but Roseate Terns continue around Fire Island Inlet, and the immature Blue Grosbeak was still patrolling the plantings near the entrance to Parking Field 2 at Robert Moses. With Andy's permission, I posted several of his photos to: http://picasaweb.google.com/tixbirdz/VirginiaBeachArcticTerns# Shai Mitra Bay Shore Think green before you print this email. -- 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/ --
