Spent a lot of time today looking for, and not finding, unusual migrant passerines. Turned up a couple of interesting things though including 3 Lesser Black-backed Gulls.
Lazy Point, Napeague produced it's reliable LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL, a Royal Tern and a Peregrine. Checked Napeague Meadow Road and spent an hour or so at Hither Hills State Park (looking mostly for sparrows at both places) but found nothing terribly unusual. Deep Hollow Ranch produced the GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE while Teddy Roosevelt was quiet with the most notable thing being another Peregrine. Sagg Main had a second LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL and a single Royal Tern. Mecox was being terrorized by a kite-surfer with most of the shorebirds fairly far off, but I did pick up a third LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL, 3 Royal Terns, a single Forsters Tern, and among the shorebirds a few Dunlin and a late PIPING PLOVER. Late afternoon birding (and dog walking) at Cedar Point CP added a few woodland species, a lot of Yellow-rumped Warblers and a very cute hatchling DIAMONDBACK TERRAPIN. -- 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/[email protected]/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/ --
