Rob Bate and I went on our final pelagic birding trip of the year today
(second for him and sixth for me). At 12:30 am last night we boarded the
Starstream VIII, part of the Captain Lou Fishing Fleet out of Freeport, Long
Island and traveled out to the edge of the continental shelf near Hudson
Canyon, arriving at first light and fishing at multiple spots across the next
25 miles and 6 hours.
While gull and Gannet numbers were way down from those earlier in the
month, we were fortunate in finding increasing numbers of four Alcid species:
Dovekie, Common Murre, Razorbill and Atlantic Puffin, along with Northern
Fulmar and Black-legged Kittiwake.
We were able to get close looks at numerous examples of each, but there
were many more distant Alcids that we couldn't identify to species. The eBird
list is below.
Happy New Year and Good Birding to all.
Rich Fried
New York City
Northern Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) 4 (39.87797, -72.65088)
Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus) 6 (39.87797, -72.65088)
Black-legged Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) 3 (39.87797, -72.65088)
Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) 25 (39.87796, -72.65089)
Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus) 41 (39.87796, -72.65089)
Dovekie (Alle alle) 35 (39.94313, -72.59260)
Common Murre (Uria aalge) 3 (39.94313, -72.59260)
Razorbill (Alca torda) 10 39.94313, -72.59260)
Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica) 11 (39.94313, -72.59260)
This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)
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